Re: [docbook-apps] any problems with DocBook XSL 1.79.0?

[Richard Hamilton <hamilton@xmlpress.net>]

Hi Bob,

As a followup, it looks like this is a problem that existed in 1.78.1. Looking back at my files and email, I see that this was discussed in 2013 and was attributed to a quirk in Saxon.

The issue comes up in xhtml-1_1/docbook.xsl which has the following line:

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"/>

Once set, saxon will put that DOCTYPE into everything, even if the output has a different namespace.

I resolved this locally by removing the doctype-public and doctype-system attributes from this line in docbook.xsl, maketoc.xsl. and profile-docbook.xsl.

I forget why this couldn't be changed in the distributed stylesheets (maybe a problem with xsltproc or another xslt processor), but if it can be changed, that would be helpful.

Thanks,
Dick
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On Oct 21, 2015, at 17:15, Richard Hamilton <hamilton@xmlpress.net> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 
> I built one of our books using the fo stylesheets, and it came out clean. Not an extensive test, but it does build a book with an index, a glossary, and a fair number of customizations.
> 
> I built an epub using the epub2 stylesheets and got the following message from epubcheck (both epubcheck 3.0.1 and 4.0.0):
> 
> ERROR: xliff.epub/OEBPS/content.opf: Obsolete or irregular DOCTYPE statement. The DOCTYPE can be removed.
> WARNING: xliff.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx: Irregular DOCTYPE: found '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN', expecting '<!DOCTYPE ncx PUBLIC "-//NISO//DTD ncx 2005-1//EN" "http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx-2005-1.dtd";>'.
> 
> I removed all of my customizations, and got the same error with the standard stylesheets, so I'm pretty sure that the problem is not in my customizations.
> 
> The same book run through the epub3 stylesheets does not generate this error, so it looks like it is specific to epub2.
> 
> I'll keep using the stylesheets and let you know if I see anything else.
> 
> Thanks for everything you do to support the stylesheets.
> 
> Dick
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> 
> 
> On Oct 21, 2015, at 15:35, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> 
>> It has been about a week since candidate DocBook XSL 1.79.0 was released, and it has been downloaded about 150 times.  Has anyone who has tried it run into any problems yet?  If so, please let me know so they can be fixed for the 1.79.1 release.
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>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>> bobs@sagehill.net
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