Advanced Features
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Advanced Features

Christopher Hornbaker

This chapter outlines the advanced features of Quanta Plus and how to use them.

XML Tools

The 3.2 release of Quanta Plus brings with it many new XML tools and features. The tools are unique in their integration within Quanta Plus. All of these tools use Kommander as a front-end and libxml2 and libxslt as a back-end. The combination of these makes for fast, efficient, productive, and complete tools.

KDE Documentation Tools

Quanta Plus supports KDE's two main documentation tools: meinproc and checkXML.

meinproc

Anyone who has worked with KDE documentation knows meinproc and how superb it is. Well, take it up a notch with a great graphical interface! No longer resort to a shell; just click the icon that resembles a processor and you are done!

Current Working Folder

This application expects an index.docbook file to be present in a folder. If index.docbook is in the current working folder, then simply leave Current Working Folder checked. If it is not, then uncheck Current Working Folder and enter the folder you wish to process in the Other Folder field.

Note

Outputted files are placed in the same folder as the sources files. All HTML files are removed each time meinproc is ran.

checkXML

Again, anyone who has worked with KDE documentation knows this helpful application. Again, Quanta Plus provides a great little graphical front-end to this one.

Current Working Folder

If the currently opened file is the index.docbook file, then simply leave Current Working Folder checked. If it is not, then uncheck Current Working Folder and enter the folder of where index.docbook can be found.

Output

If there is output, then your file is invalid. Please correct the reported errors and try again.

XML Validation

Quanta Plus has a great XML validation tool, which uses a xmllint back-end.

Current File

If the file to be validated is currently focused on in Quanta Plus, then simply leave Current File checked. If it is not, then uncheck Current File and select the file to be validated from the Other File file selector.

Well-formed Checking

If you only wish to know only if the file is well-formed, click the Well-formed Checking Only check box.

Definition URI

If you are using a DTD and it is specified within the XML file, then select DTD (Internal) (default), else select DTD (External) and locate the DTD with the Definition URI file selector. Both W3C® XML Schema and RelaxNG validation are required to be externally defined via the Definition URI file selector.

XSL Processing

Yep, Quanta Plus has a XSL processing tool, too! This uses the xsltproc tool provided with libxml2.

Current File

If the file to be processed is currently focused on in Quanta Plus, then simply leave Current File checked. If it is not, then uncheck Current File and select the file to be processed from the Other File selector.

Stylesheet

Select the XSL file that you wish to be used.

Output file name

Enter the name of the file that you want the resulting file to be called. File is outputed to your home folder by default.

Note

This application lacks flexibility. Sorry, we will do better next time.

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