Re: Adding dispspecs

Dave Malcolm <[email protected]> 16 Feb 2004 13:01:40 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.editors.conglomerate.general
Message-ID <1076936500.24116.5631.camel@shirehorse1>
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 09:40, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> Hi all,
> while playing with different dispspecs and the latest 12.pre
> Conglomerate, I noticed that if I add a dispspec in the appropriate
> directory, Conge goes and try to load it when loading a suitable
> document. Unfortunately, the few documents I tried to load crashed
> costantly: is it because Conglomerate needs to be compiled with the

Please supply a backtrace of the crash (I suspect it's the usual
"nesting structural tags inside span ones" problem)

> dispspec name in the makefile? It would be nice to be able to modify
> current dispspecs, then drop the modified versions in the dispspec
> directory and have them work automagically; especially with complex DTDs
> like TEI, where, as I hinted in the past, you can have lots of custom
> subset-DTDs base on the main one.

Can't be done at the moment; there simply isn't any infrastructure to
deal with changes to a dispspec, alas.  

Hacking the "installed" version of the xds file ought to work, provide
you restart Conglomerate each time, which would be a pain.


> 
> Ciao