The DTD generation is not 100% baked yet: there's still an issue with how the L&T DTDs are being generated (or an issue with validating them with specific versions of Xerces, I'm not sure which) and as you say the documentation is not yet complete. I also haven't had the bandwidth to make sure the scripts are appropriate for use with shells other than the TC-provided ones--it's likely that there are additional options or business logic needed to handle that case correctly. I should have time to work on this stuff starting this weekend--I'm coming off of vacation, a conference, and a week of fire fighting and hopefully things are quieting down for a week or two anyway. The public repository is the TC-managed SVN repository. It's publicly available for read-only access and we have already determined that that will be the official source. I had started writing documentation on how to run things but it appears to not be there in my local working copy. Cheers, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com On 8/11/14, 4:15 PM, "Tom Magliery" <
tom.magliery@justsystems.com> wrote: >(Mostly questions for Eliot) > >We're considering bundling the DTD generation tool with the next major >release of XMetaL (March 2015). The idea is that our customers who >specialize DITA can use RNG (if desired) to create their specializations, >and then (since XMetaL will still be using DTDs) we can auto-generate the >necessary DTDs from that source. (Perhaps "embedding" would be a better >term than "bundling", if we're aiming to hide this code from the user >perspective.) > >So our dev team is wondering about the status of this toolset. > >- How "finished" is it, would you say? >- Are there any instructions? (The "how-to" in SVN is a stub.) >- Is there a public repository yet? >- Any anticipated timelines for these things? > >mag >