DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free

[ed nixon <ed dot nixon at lynnparkplace dot org>]

Good thoughts, David. Thanks. And for the tip about "finding" the .sps 
file. Perhaps I'll reinstall and take another look, although I would 
have appreciated a little more "upfrontness" about what was actually 
forthcoming for free.

                           rgrds              ...edN

David Cramer wrote:
> Moving over to docbook-apps as Jirka suggested.
>
> I got that same dialog about not finding an .sps but was able to get it
> to use the sps they ship by clicking "OK" at the dialog you mentioned
> and navigating to "C:\Program
> Files\Altova\AUTHENTIC\sps\Template\Publishing\DocBook.sps" (the .sps
> file is xml, btw; don't know if it's documented well enough to let you
> design it without their tool tho). From then on, it associates that
> doctype with that sps by default. I believe the "stylesheet application"
> is one of the full featured versions of xmlspy, along the adobe acrobat
> model: free viewer, you pay for the full-featured tool. I can envision a
> case where one specialist carefully designs a .sps and many content
> providers use Authentic to shield them from the tags to some degree and
> validate their contribution. I suspect there's a fair amount of work to
> do in designing that .sps file tho, and whether it would be appropriate
> for docbook will depend very much on what your doing with docbook, how
> many people are contributing, what level of knowledge of the content
> model the have/need to have, etc. 
>
> David 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ed nixon [mailto:ed dot nixon at lynnparkplace dot org] 
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:01 PM
> To: David Cramer
> Cc: rodrigo reyes; Docbook at Lists dot  Oasis-Open. Org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free
>
> David Cramer wrote:
>
> > When the license manager app starts, click the "Purchase" button. It
> > will take you to a page where you can "Purchase" Authentic for free
>
> (you
>
> > have to enter an email address). They'll email you a key.
> >
> > I'm poking around in it now with a small doc. From what I can tell the
> > ".sps" file for docbook (a set of instructions that tells Authentic
>
> how
>
> > to present an instance of docbook) isn't written all that well, but
> > you'll get the idea--it's a way to create forms/templates for
> > non-xml-aware content providers. Does anybody have/know of a better
> > DocBook.sps than the one provided? 
>
>
> I've customized my sdocbook DTD, therefore I can't open any of my files 
> in this product. A message window comes up stating that there is no .sps
>
> file for my document, that the license does not allow source view of 
> instances and that I should go to the "stylesheet" application and 
> create a new .sps file for my file. I have been unable to find the 
> stylesheet application, either on disk in the installation or as a menu 
> option in Authentic itself. If I am right, there is certainly something 
> authentic about the free-ness of this product but it's not in the name 
> or the functionality.
>
>              ...edN