Hi Dave,
Thanks for your input.
I explored this option, but, unless I'm misunderstanding the documentation, I
don't think I can add an internal DTD subset to chapter.xml, because there is
already one at the top of the book.xml. This is what I intended when I said,
>> I can put a DTD at the top of the file with the entities, and it will
>> validate, but that's clearly the wrong thing to do since the book file
>> already has a DTD.
I'm new with XML / DocBook, so maybe I'm misunderstanding you and the
Stackoverflow answer.
Joseph
Dave Pawson <> writes:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36994308/how-to-create-a-new-entity-with-relax-ng-schema-in-docbook-v5-0
> Internal DTD subset.
> HTH
> On 17 July 2016 at 02:12, Joseph Mingrone <> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm working on setting up on-file-fly validation of FreeBSD documentation in
>> Emacs with nxml-mode. I've configured Emacs/nmxl-mode to use FreeBSD's nearly
>> DocBook 5.0 compact relax NG schema. Everything is working well, but there is
>> one issue that I am stumped on. If I am working on a file (e.g. a chapter) that
>> is included in a main document (book) and that file uses project-specific
>> entities, the document will not validate. I can put a DTD at the top of the
>> file with the entities, and it will validate, but that's clearly the wrong thing
>> to do since the book file already has a DTD.
>> Suggestions?
>> Thanks,
>> Joseph
>> ------------------
>> Tree for FreeBSD's documentation: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/
>> Book file: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/
>> Chapter file: editor-config/chapter.xml, which is included in book.xml
>> The book is glued together with the Makefile there. There are a few layers of
>> includes, which eventually pulls in the .ent files:
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/share/xml/
>> The compact relax NG schema:
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/share/xml/freebsd50.rnc?revision=43126&view=markup
