The configuration file

Editing the configuration file

Click on the Tools button in the Majix main dialogue box. In the list displayed in the dialogue box that appears, choose "Editing configuration file". This allows you to modify main options. The complete list of options is detailed below.

Don't forget to validate your modifications by clicking on the Validate button.

Options stored in the configuration file

Majix uses a configuration file stored in its installation directory. It simply maps entry keys to values. The keys supported are:

country

country code

language

language code

majix.check.default

"nsgmls" if the document validation is performed using nsgmls, "sax" if it is performed by a SAX parser

majix.dir.doc

path name of the directory containing Majix documentation

majix.enable.doc

"1" if the browsing of Majix documentation is enabled

majix.enable.msword

"1" if MS-Word is available

majix.enable.nsgmls

"1" if nsgmls is available

majix.tool.browser

command used to run the HTML browser (for example: value="explorer" or value="netscape")

majix.tool.browser

name of the browser (e.g. "iexplore")

majix.tool.nsgmls

path name of nsgmls.exe, if available

majix.tool.nsgmls.catalog

path name of nsgmls catalog file, if available

sax.driver.sax

class name of the SAX driver; for instance "com.ibm.xml.parser.SAXDriver" for IBM's XML for Java parser (version 1.1), or "com.jclark.xml.sax.CommentDriver" for James Clark's XP.

xt.stylesheet.default

path name of XSL default stylesheet

The Majix configuration file is a XML file conforming to the following DTD:

<!DOCTYPE configuration [

<!ELEMENT configuration (entry+)>

<!ELEMENT entry EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST entry

key CDATA #REQUIRED

value CDATA #IMPLIED>

]>

Example of configuration file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<!DOCTYPE configuration [

<!ELEMENT configuration (entry+)>

<!ELEMENT entry EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST entry

key CDATA #REQUIRED

value CDATA #IMPLIED>

]>

<configuration>

<entry key="xt.stylesheet.default" value="C:\majix\userdoc\programs\simple.xsl"/>

<entry key="country" value="US"/>

<entry key="majix.tool.nsgmls" value="c:\sp\bin\nsgmls.exe"/>

<entry key="majix.tool.nsgmls.catalog" value="SGML_CATALOG_FILES=c:\sp\pubtext\xml.soc "/>

<entry key="majix.enable.nsgmls" value="1"/>

<entry key="sax.driver.class" value="com.ibm.xml.parser.SAXDriver"/>

<entry key="majix.enable.msword" value="1"/>

<entry key="majix.dir.doc" value="e:\usr\dev\majix-1.1\userdoc\html"/>

<entry key="majix.check.default" value="sax"/>

<entry key="language" value="en"/>

<entry key="majix.enable.doc" value="1"/>

<entry key="majix.tool.browser" value="iexplore"/>

</configuration>