Unresolved elements in document using Oasis docbook.dtd

[Michael Grigoni]

Greetings:

We are trying to browse some documents included in a software
distribution which were delivered only in sgml; there are no DTDs.
The documents use '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN'; I fetched versions
of this DTD from the Docbook and Oasis sites and from a variety of other
sources. The documents contain elements not in the DTDs:

constant
section id
qandaset
qandaentry
question
answer
varname

The document maintainer says these should be in the DTD.

Our only browsers are Panorama for Win16 (free version) or Novell Dynatext and
Sun Answerbook2. We've grabbed a wide variety of versions of the docbook dtd
and come up negative.

Is anyone aware of a DTD with these elements?

All replies much appreciated .

Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum

[Peter Flynn]

Post by Michael Grigoni
We are trying to browse some documents included in a software
distribution which were delivered only in sgml; there are no DTDs.
The documents use '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN'; I fetched versions
of this DTD from the Docbook and Oasis sites and from a variety of other
constant
section id <-- id is an attribute, not an element type.
qandaset
qandaentry
question
answer
varname
The document maintainer says these should be in the DTD.

She's right. All of them are in my copy of 4.2 (XML: I'm assuming the SGML
version is an absolute parallel). Are you sure you were using 4.2 to
validate the documents? And do the documents perhaps need an additional file
of modifications (a technique DocBook uses extensively)?

Post by Michael Grigoni
Our only browsers are Panorama for Win16 (free version) or Novell Dynatext
and Sun Answerbook2. We've grabbed a wide variety of versions of the
docbook dtd and come up negative.

It will only work with the exact version as given. Using other versions
simply won't work. What software does the document maintainer use? And
does it validate the documents?

///Peter