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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook2X: iconv: (stdin): cannot convert
Jim Osborn <jimo@eskimo.com> writes: > After installing docbook2X-0.8.5 I tried the suggested two-part > invocation of docbook2man on a file in the test/refentry directory: > > db2x_xsltproc -s man -o sgml2xml.mxml sgml2xml.xml > > successfully makes sgml2xml.mxml. But then > > db2x_manxml sgml2xml.mxml > > fails with this message: > > iconv: (stdin): cannot convert > /usr/local/bin/db2x_manxml: program in pipeline exited with an error I'd suggest instead trying the manpages stylesheet from the DocBook XSL stylesheets -- either the latest official release, 1.69.1, or the current snapshot - http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshot/ So with those, you can do a transformation from DocBook to man output with one of the following commands: xsltproc \ http://docbook.sf.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl \ FOO.xml xsltproc \ /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl \ FOO.xml (Replace the path in the second with whatever the local system pat to the manpages/docbook.xsl driver file is on your system.) If you run into problems or have questions about those, you can get help either on this list or on the #docbook IRC channel on freenode.net. --Mike
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