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smacajone1-Visitor
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February 12, 2016
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how to prompt for dtd?

  • February 12, 2016
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Hi All,

I use Arbortext editor 6.0 M060, I can't set the promptnodtd to on because  i can't find it in the options list.

It should be set to on by default, but  when I open a document without a doctype declaration, the editor open it  in free-form XML mode, without prompting for the dtd.

Anyone can help me?

thanks

Sonia

Best answer by GarethOakes

I like Clay's suggestion. Something else you could consider along those lines is a script to scan all existing XML files, and for those files without a doctype, perform a simple heuristic analysis in order to determine and assign a DOCTYPE declaration to each. Or if you had a limited set of DOCTYPEs then just try each DOCTYPE one at a time until the file validates

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GarethOakes16-Pearl
16-Pearl
February 14, 2016

The 6.0 release is quite old, perhaps the option you are looking for was not implemented? I think all options should be in the list. If it's a hidden option of somesort then you will be forced to use Editor command line or ACL script to toggle it: "set promptnodtd=yes" or whatever is required.

The recommended way to work with new doctypes is to install the DTD into your "custom" folder and register its PUBLIC doctype identifier(s) within your catalogs file.

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smacajone1-VisitorAuthor
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February 15, 2016

thanks for your reply.

The option is described in the help center, so I expected to find it in the list (tools - preferences- advanced-) but unfortunatily it's not there. As I wrote I have already

tried to set it the acl code as described in the help center, but it doesn't work, nothing happend. So I thought it could be a bug and I wonder if there is a workaround for it

I have all my dtds and doctypes stuff (fosi, acl etc..) in costum folder, an I have a catalog with public doctypes declared, BUT I have some thousands of documents without a doctype declation inside.

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ClayHelberg18-Opal
18-Opal
February 15, 2016

Hi Sonia--

Actually, I think that option is meant for the case where the document contains a doctype declaration, but the doctype file can't be found in the specified location. At that point it will prompt you for a new location from which to load the DTD.

For what you are doing, you may need to add some custom ACL code to let users choose a DTD for documents that don't specify one. You could write a function that prompts the user for a document filename, and also for a doctype file (DTD or schema), and then uses doc_open() to open the document with that doctype. You could attach that function to a menu item called "Open with Selected Doctype".

--Clay

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