DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with passivetex / pdfxmltex

[Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com>]

I'm trying to install PassiveTeX on a handful of computers.  The
Win* boxen configured like a charm thanks to MiKTeX.  My FreeBSD box,
however, has been no end of headaches.

I started out with a vanilla teTeX 1.0.7 install, and had some problems
with pdfxmltex; after poking around the list archives for a while, I 
saw that I needed to upgrade from pdftex-13d to pdftex-14h; after a lot
of guesswork that seems to be OK.

But now something still seems to be broken.  pdflatex works just
fine, and I can format one of the test files in the passivetex/test
directory just fine with xmltex/dvipdfm, but never with pdfxmltex:

	$ pdfxmltex teiu5.fo
	This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
	(./teiu5.fo{/usr/local/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
	LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
	Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
	ohyphenation, loaded.
	xmltex version: 2000-03-08 v0.14 DPC
	(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.cfg) 
	No File: teiu5.cfg (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/fotex.xmt
	! Undefined control sequence.
	l.24 \XMLstringX
			\prop@width<>proportional-column-width(1)</>
	? ^D
	! Emergency stop.


And xmltex fails on some of the *.fo files, particularly darkness.fo:

	$ xmltex darkness.fo
	This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
	(darkness.fo
	LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
	Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
	ohyphenation, loaded.
	xmltex version: 2000/09/07 v1.8y (Exp):
	(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.cfg)

		[...]

	(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)
	! Missing \endcsname inserted.
	<to be read again> 
			   \Odd: 
	l.1 ...r/></fo:block></fo:static-content><fo:flow>


I've run texhash many times, and built pdfxmltex.fmt and xmltex.fmt
thusly:
	initex \&latex /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.tex

	pdfinitex \&pdflatex \
		/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/pdfxmltex.ini
	

Any ideas what might be going wrong?  Both errors seem pretty fundemental...

Thanks,

Z.