Sunday
Jan242010
Enable Visual Studio Intellisense for DocBook
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 11:36AM You can easily plug in XML Schemas to enable Intellisense for certain XML namespaces and file extensions. DocBook includes all of the necessary schemas, so all that's required is a schema catalog.
To make it a little easier, I put together a ZIP file that contains everything you need.
Just unzip it to one of the following locations, depending on your version of Visual Studio:
- Visual Studio 2005
C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas - Visual Studio 2008
C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 9.0\Xml\Schemas - Visual Studio 2010
C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 10.0\Xml\Schemas
DocBook Intellisense will be enabled for files with the docbook extension. If your solution contains DocBook files, you can simply right-click and choose “Open With…” then select “XML Editor”.
Enjoy!
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Reader Comments (7)
Uuh...
That's... fast!
Thanks a lot!
You're welcome! Apologies for not updating it for 5.0 sooner. I haven't used DocBook in a while, so I wasn't aware that I new version had been released.
Well, in fact I have to apologise; after having a closer look at it, it became pretty clear that I could have done it easily by myself. Sorry I let others do the dirty work.
And therefore thanks again!
Nice post, I'm also interested in using the .NET toolchain to process docbook documents. For now I use only Java tools (ANT, Xalan, Eclipse, etc). Could you tell me what do you use to process your docbook?
Kris,
I haven't used DocBook in a while, so my memory is probably a little fuzzy at this point. I used Visual Studio to write the DocBook files, but I don't have any kind of project system for them, unfortunately. To transform them, I used xsltproc, which I remember being a pain to set up on Windows because it had its dependencies strung out all over the place. Sorry, but I don't remember where exactly I got them. Later on, I wrote a simple .NET app called XTransform to replace xsltproc, but I never got around to testing it because the project I was writing documentation for was cut. I think I still have XTransform on an old backup drive and could send you a copy if you're interested.
David,
thanks, I'm really interested in the XTransform tool. I hope to get this thing running, so that you could publish Docbook projects using MSBuild integrated in VS. Another path to explore may be nxslt3, but I haven't tried that one either.
thanks a lot,
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