Serious problems with psgml 1.2.5

Hello list,

Writing a large DocBook-document I have some serious problems with 
Emacs/Xemacs+psgml:


a) Using entities to break a document in smaller pieces as described in
"DocBook - The Definite Guide" does not work for me:

<!ENTITY chap1 SYSTEM "chap1.sgm">
<!ENTITY chap2 SYSTEM "chap2.sgm">
]>
<book><title>My First Book</title>
&chap1;
&chap2;
</book>


Emacs (and Xemacs neither) does not parse the DTD in the smaller files.
I have tried the following

<!--
      Local Variables:
      mode: xml
      sgml-parent-document: ("master-file.xml" "book" "chapter")
      End:
-->


This mechanism only works for small documents (at least on my machine)
but not when the documents get large. I don't know how to fix this.

Loading one of the smaller files, I get the error message:

"File mode specification error: void-function char-table-parent"



b) Editing of attributes does not work. It always turns
*all* attribute values to lowercase. Sometimes it inserts funny markup
like an extra ">". (Unfortunately, the last behaviour cannot be
reproduced deterministically.)
This is very dangerous because it can make files unvalid (by lowercasing
IDs or IDREfs.)


c) psgml sometimes becomes confused when I type something like

<para>The number which is half as big as n is n/2. </para>

It sometimes (but not always!) misinterprets the "/" division operator
as belonging to an end-tag. After this "/" the set of elements it offers
for this context is complete nonsense.

d) Inseting an <xref> and typing "SOMEID" for the linkend, psgml inserts 
the following:

<xref linkend="someid">

(note that there is no trailing slash and no end-tag </xref> and the 
attribute is lower case.)


e) One concrete example:

I had

<imagedata align="center" fileref="Analysis.pdf" format="PDF"/>

and inserted an attribute/value pair 'contendtwidht="10cm"' by clicking 
the right mouse button to get a menu of all allowed attributes.

psgml gave me the following:

<imagedata contentwidth="10cm" align="center" fileref="Analysis.pdf" 
format="pdf">>


Note the extra ">" at the end and the lower case "pdf".


I've tried this with psgml-1.2.5 (bytecompiled by myself) and GNU Emacs
21.1.2 and XEmacs 21.1 (patch 14).



What can I do?


Greetings,
Joachim


-- 
Joachim Ziegler                       Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik    66123 Saarbrücken
Email: [email protected]          Germany



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