Re: DOCBOOK: problems with install on windows platform

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Schlienger, Marc wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed the following components:
> - docbook xml 4.2
> - docbook xsl 1.55.0
> - xsltproc
> 
> and I set the XML_CATALOG_FILES env. var. as specified in the doc.
> 
> but when I run xsltproc, it cannot fetch the DTD! Is this because I'm behind
> a firewall? Shouldn't it look in the local file system to fetch the dtd
> according to the --catalog option?
> 
> this is the command:
> 
> xsltproc --catalogs c:\docbook\docbook-xsl-1.55.0\htmlhelp\htmlhelp.xsl
> user-manual.xml
> 
> and this is what I get as error message:
> 
> xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost:  Failed to resolve host
> 'www.oasis-open.org'xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost:  Failed to resolve host
> 'www.oasis-open.org'user-manual.xml:8: warning: failed to load external
> entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";
> ]>
>  ^
> 
> nevertheless does it generate the htmlhelp output. But without validation I
> presume.

Try setting the env variable XML_DEBUG_CATALOG=1 to see
what is going on with catalog resolution.

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