Installation and Setup

The Modular DocBook Stylesheets
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# Chapter 2. Installation and Setup

In order to process DocBook documents with these stylesheets, you must get three separate components installed and configured correctly:

- Jade (or another DSSSL processor)

- The DocBook DTD.

- The The Modular DocBook Stylesheets

For simplicity, these instructions assume that you are working with Jade on a Microsoft Windows machine. These instructions should be just as useful if you are working on a non-M$ platform, modulo the normal cross-platform idiosyncracies (path and filename separator characters, use of drive letters, etc.)

If you are using another DSSSL processor, the section called Installing the DocBook DTD may still be helpful, but most of the rest probably won't apply.

# Installing Jade

1. Download and unpack the Jade distribution. Binary distributions are available for some platforms, including Microsoft Windows, which makes installation a simple matter of unpacking the distribution. For other platforms, you will need to build Jade from sources. Please consult the documentation that comes with Jade for more detailed installation instructions.

   You may wish to add the directory where you installed Jade to your `PATH`. If not, make sure that you use the fully qualified name of the executable when you try to run the commands below.

2. Download jtest.sgm and jtest.dsl. These are self-contained test documents. Test Jade by running:

       jade -t rtf -d jtest.dsl jtest.sgm

   This command should silently produce jtest.rtf.

   If you get errors of the form:

       jade:jtest.dsl:1:72:W: cannot generate system identifier for public
       text "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN"
       jade:jtest.dsl:1:72:E: reference to entity "STYLE-SHEET" for which no
       system identifier could be generated
       jade:jtest.dsl:1:0: entity was defined here
       jade:jtest.dsl:1:72:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for
       document type name
       jade:jtest.dsl:2:12:E: element "STYLE-SHEET" undefined
       jade:jtest.dsl:3:20:E: element "STYLE-SPECIFICATION" undefined
       jade:jtest.dsl:4:25:E: element "STYLE-SPECIFICATION-BODY" undefined
       jade:E: specification document does not have the DSSSL architecture
       as a base architecture

   You probably need to setup the `SGML_CATALOG_FILES` path, as described below.

3. If you encounter other warnings or errors, Jade is not installed correctly.

# Installing the DocBook DTD

1. Download and unpack the DocBook DTD distribution. Please consult the documentation that comes with DocBook for more detailed installation instructions.

2. The DocBook DTD is composed of several modules. In order for SGML tools on your system to find these modules, you will need to setup an SGML Open catalog file that maps the public identifiers used in DocBook to local system identifiers. The DocBook distribution comes with a default catalog called `docbook.cat` which is probably sufficient.

   Note, however, that Jade does not understand the `DTDDECL` directive in catalog files and will issue a warning if you use `docbook.cat` unchanged.

3. In order to find your catalog files, Jade, nsgmlsu, and the other tools in the Jade distribution examine the `SGML_CATALOG_FILES` environment variable. This variable should contain a `PATH`-like list of the catalog files on your system. I have combined the catalog from the DocBook distribution and several other DTDs that I use frequently into a single catalog in `d:/share/sgml/catalog`, so I set my `SGML_CATALOG_FILES` variable to:

       ./catalog;d:/share/sgml/catalog;c:/jade/catalog;

   If you are using only Jade and the DocBook DTD on your system, this setting should be sufficient:

       c:/docbook/docbook.cat;c:/jade/catalog

   assuming that you have the DocBook DTD installed in `c:\docbook` and Jade installed in `c:\jade`.

   Note: If you are on a UNIX system, the catalog file separator in `SGML_CATALOG_FILES` is the colon, not the semicolon.

   One mistake that I frequently make the first time I try to install Jade somewhere new is to set the `SGML_CATALOG_FILES` variable to the list of directories that contain catalog files rather than the list of catalog files. That doesn' t work, it has to be a list of the actual catalog files.

   Another wrinkle to be aware of is that Jade will also search the catalog files for the `SGMLDECL` entry which specifies the default SGML Declaration to use. On my system, I have several doctypes that don't use the declaration identified as the default in one of my catalog files, so I have to explicitly include the proper declaration when I format those documents.

4. To test your installation, download test.sgm and run following command:

       nsgmls -sv test.sgm

   The nsgmls program is a stand-alone SGML parser included in the current Jade distribution (in previous distributions, it was called nsgmlsu).

   If the nsgmls command produces errors, review your catalog and resolve the errors:

   - Ignore warnings about `DTDDECL` being unsupported. It is unsupported, and there's no way to disable the warning message. Note, however, that this may also effect which SGML declaration gets used. When in doubt, pass the correct declaration explicitly and see if that corrects any problems. (To parse `test.sgm` with the declaration `docbook.dcl` explicitly, run nsgmls -sv docbook.dcl test.sgm.)

   - If you are missing some of the ISO entity sets, they are available on the web at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/topics.html#entities

# Installing the Modular DocBook Stylesheets

1. Download and unpack the stylesheet distribution.

2. Test the installation by processing `test.sgm` (from the previous section) with Jade:

       jade -t rtf -d d:\where-you-unpacked-the-stylesheets\docbook\print\docbook.dsl test.sgm

   This command should silently produce `test.rtf`.

   If you get errors indicating that a capacity has been exceeded (`...must not exceed LITLEN` or `...must not exceed GRPCNT`, etc.), you are probably using the wrong declaration. Try the test again, with an explicit declaration:

       jade -t rtf -d d:\where-you-unpacked-the-stylesheets\docbook\print\docbook.dsl docbook.dcl test.sgm

   If errors persist, and the preceding test succeeded, something has gone wrong—contact the maintainer.

   To test the HTML stylesheet, run

       jade -t sgml -d d:\where-you-unpacked-the-stylesheets\docbook\html\docbook.dsl test.sgm

   This command should silently produce `c01.htm`. If not, and the preceding test succeeded, something has gone wrong—contact the maintainer.

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