Article: 12474 of comp.text.sgml From: Arjan Loeffen Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Subject: Re: TEI & SQ's Author/Editor Date: 6 Feb 1996 20:23:47 GMT Organization: Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, NL Message-ID: <4f8dcj$2bs@ruulch.let.ruu.nl> References: (12446) To: ST.KURTZ@BIONIC.zerberus.de ST.KURTZ@BIONIC.zerberus.de (Stefan Kurtz) wrote: >Hello, > I want to use SoftQuads Author/Editor with the TEI-dtds. I tried many > times - but I never had success. Rulesbuilder failed with some > "entities missing" etc. messages. The other people from our project > did'nt manage it too. Well, there are no entity-files missing, we > tried with different distributions. Rumours from the net say, that > it is in fact impossible to use TEI with A/E - is this true or not? > >Clueless, >Stefan. Yes, you can use author/editor for creating TEI documents. You must however build a separate document that holds "dummy" element declarations for elements that are used in the DTD, but not declared. SGML allows this, but author/editor doesn't. Here goes my Prose document type as extracted from the TEI guidelines: ------------------- %ISOlat1; %ISOdia; %ISOnum; %Prose.Elm; %TEI; ---------------------- And here goes the list of dummy declarations: ---------------------- ---------------------- Hope it helps.... Arjan. -- Arjan Loeffen, Humanities Computing, Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ++31+302536417 (voice work), ++31+206656463 (voice home) http://www.let.ruu.nl/C+L/loeffen/home.htm