On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 05:43:31PM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote an entire document using the debiandoc DTD before I > realized that I picked on the weaker and less prevailing DTD. I would like > to convert my entire document to docbook. Unfortunately, the docbook > package that I have (originally the Slink package, but I upgraded to the > potato sgmltools2 package) doesnt seem to be set up perfectly. When I try > to convert the following test document : > > <!doctype DocBook system> > <book> > ? > </book> > > into html by doing '$sgmltools -b html try.sgml' (where try.sgml > is the above file), I get : > > /usr/bin/jade:<OSFD>0:1:24:W: cannot generate system identifier for > document type "DOCBOOK" > /usr/bin/jade:<OSFD>0:1:24:E: reference to entity "DOCBOOK" for which no > system identifier could be generated > /usr/bin/jade:<OSFD>0:1:0: entity was defined here > /usr/bin/jade:<OSFD>0:1:24:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for > document type name > /usr/bin/jade:<OSFD>0:2:5:E: element "BOOK" undefined > /usr/bin/jade:<OSFD>0:2:5:E: element "DOCBOOK" undefined > /usr/bin/jade:<OSFD>0:4:8:E: end tag for "DOCBOOK" omitted, but its > declaration does not permit this > /usr/bin/jade:<OSFD>0:2:0: start tag was here >
You have docbook installed, no? It looks like it's not being found. There should be a file /etc/catalog that should have an entry pointing to the location of the docbook dtd. Hunt around under /usr/lib/sgml. Maybe try using the public identifier instead. Here on potato: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN"> On a slink, maybe: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//DavenPort//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN"> Maybe not specifying "book" is the problem as well? <!doctype book SYSTEM DocBook> After all, you should be able to do something like: <!doctype chapter SYSTEM DocBook> Although, I think it should default to "book" if not specified. Hmmm, with system you may want to try: <!doctype book SYSTEM "docbook.dtd"> I'm rather new to this SGML stuff as well (mostly using LaTeX). -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
