AW: [docbook-apps] Entity newbie question

["Andreas Kehlenbach" <keh@parsytec.de>]

Thanks for this answer. This solve the problem.
I add curly braces like u say and anything is allright :).
I don't need the kimber method.

Greez Andreas 

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Mauritz Jeanson [mailto:mj@johanneberg.com] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 20:14
An: Andreas Kehlenbach; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Betreff: RE: [docbook-apps] Entity newbie question

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Kehlenbach

> I compiled my xml file with saxon and it works fine, but if i direct 
> opened the xml-file with the Internet Explorer i get the following 
> error:
> 
> Der Wert des Attributs 'lang' kann nicht 'concat(/*/@lang, 
> /*/@xml:lang)' sein. Fehler beim Kompilieren des enthaltenen o...


I think I can help with this. I got similar error messages when I tried to use the "kosek" indexing method with Xalan 2.7.0. As far as I can tell, the solution for problem 1 below also helps when you use Internet Explorer and the "english" indexing method.

There are two problems related to Xalan:

1. The first problem is the 'lang' entity (which is used only by the "kimber" method, btw). Xalan complains about an illegal value for the 'lang'
attribute on <xsl:sort>:

file:/c:/doctypes/docbook/xsl/html/autoidx.xsl; Line #345; Column #67; XSLT Error (javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException):
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Illegal value: concat(/*/@lang,
/*/@xml:lang) used for NMTOKEN attribute: lang 


Adding curly braces, lang="{&lang;}", makes Xalan happy again. So far so good...

However, removing the 'lang' attributes altogether seems to be a better solution. The reason: it makes the "kimber" method work correctly for Swedish (and probably for other languages, but I haven't tested that). With these attributes still in the stylesheet, the collation of index entries beginning with accented characters (å, ä, ö) is not correct.


2. The second problem is the old function-available(exslt:node-set) bug
(http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2223):

file:/c:/doctypes/docbook/xsl/html/autoidx.xsl; Line #226; Column #34;
ERROR: the 'kosek' index method requires the exslt:node-set() function. Use a processor that has it, or use a different index method.


This can be worked around by modifying the test for exslt:node-set:

<xsl:if test="not(function-available('exslt:node-set') or function-available('exslt:nodeSet'))">


/MJ