Re: [docbook-apps] New to this list, with an XSL question...

[Filippo Rusconi <filippo.rusconi@u-psud.fr>]

Greetings, Bob,


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 08:42:17AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
> I'm not sure what the problem is here, as your process looks correct. 
> Can you compare your generated titlepage.xsl to the original 
> fo/titlepage.templates.xsl that is included with the distribution? 
> They should be equivalent, modulo whitespace variations.

Thank your for your reply.

Please, be patient, I have reproduced the experiment, but since I do not modify
any file, I am using the distribution files directly, like this:

xsltproc --output titlepage.xsl \
 /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.xsl \
 /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.templates.xml

The command above created the new titlepage.xsl file in the local directory.

Now I can compare the sizes of both xsl files:

799 lines for the original one (/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.xsl)
1266 lines for the newly created one

If I open the newly created file in an editor, I see *existing* lines that are
empty. The file contains only the following non-empty line

line 1: <?xml version="1.0"?>

All the remaining lines are empty (only '\n' characters).


For the record, the xml file contains this amount of lines:

1682 /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.templates.xml

So something is wrong, but also I must have made a mistake the first time I
tried, since the build of the pdf file went to the end (the validation
succeeded) while now the build fails with the following error:

/home/rusconi/devel/docbook/msxpertsuite/minexpert/xslt/fo/titlepage.xsl:1267: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^
compilation error: file /home/rusconi/devel/docbook/msxpertsuite/minexpert/xslt/fo/docbook.xsl line 6 element import
xsl:import : unable to load /home/rusconi/devel/docbook/msxpertsuite/minexpert/xslt/fo/titlepage.xsl

The error is related to the fact that apart from the first line, there is not a
single XML tag in the imported xls file.

So, this is where I am at the moment.

Thank for your attention,

Cheers,
Filippo
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