Re: XML vers. CALS table

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

| ... <conventions><simple-content>
| <p>This manual uses the following conventions for syntax:</p>
| <table frame="all"><tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
| <colspec colwidth="88*"/>
| <colspec colwidth="308*"/><tbody ...
| 
| When tying to convert this using jade and a DSSSL stylesheet
| jade reports an error " character data is not allowed here "
| referring to the '/' behind '"88*"'. 
| 
| I have two questions :
| 1. What is wrong with <colspec colwidth="88*"/> ?

It's in XML and my guess is that you're using an SGML declaration.
Try passing in an XML declaration...

| 2. Why are there no complaints concerning
|     <colspec colwidth="308*"/> ?

Hmmm. Dunno.

| I admit that jade is right in complaining. My documents are in
| XML and so is the DocBook-result supposed to be. However
| I am using 'cals-tbl.elm' that is obviously a SGML-DTD, since
| it contains these '-' and 'o' bits. Thus the incriminated colspec
| is XML but however not conformant to 'cals-tbl.elm'.
| 
| Do I only need an XML-conformant CALS table DTD ?
| If yes, where do I get it from ?

You can get a version from my DocBook XML DTD at
http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xml/

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                                          norm
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