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DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide
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DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide

by Norman Walsh, Richard L. Hamilton
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 37m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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XML Tools

Here is information about some of the tools mentioned in this book. If you are running Linux, you may be able to load some of these tools using a package manager like Synaptic, yum, or apt. Needless to say, this is not a comprehensive list; there are other capable tools available. However, these are a good starting place.

RELAX NG

A variety of tools that support RELAX NG can be found at: http://relaxng.org/. These include:

MSV

Sun Multi-Schema XML Validator (from Sun Microsystems). MSV is an open source program that validates RELAX NG as well as other schema languages including W3C XML Schema.

https://msv.dev.java.net/

Jing

An open source RELAX NG validator that supports both compact and XML syntax.

http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing.html

Trang

An open source program that is a companion to Jing, Trang converts between various XML schema languages. It supports both compact and XML syntax for RELAX NG, XML 1.0 DTDs, and W3C XML Schemas, though it only supports W3C XML Schemas for output.

http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html

EMACS nXML mode

This is an open source addon for emacs that supports syntax-directed editing using a RELAX NG compact mode schema. It validates as you type and will show you at any point what the valid set of elements, attributes, and attribute values is. It also supports automatic completion of partially typed elements, attributes, and attribute values.

http://www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode/

Saxon

Saxon is an XSLT processor. The basic processor ...

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