DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTeX Howto?

[Colin Meyer <cmeyer@helvella.org>]

Hi, 

I've got some docbook files that I'd like to convert to pdf.
I'm playing with the XSL stylesheets.

I've had some success (I can at least make a pdf file) with FOP,
and would like to compare with PassiveTex before I start customizing.
However, I haven't had the least success with the PassiveTeX.

When trying to process a simple document, I get a Fatal error.

I am using: 

   xalan test.dkb $XSLDIR/fo/docbook.xsl test.fo

followed by:

   pdfxmltex test.fo

The TeX is from SuSE Linux 7.2 (with the xmltex and passivetex rpm's 
from 7.3). Xalan is 2.2.0.

Thanks for any help,
-Colin.

following is the tail of pdfxmltex's logfile:

Start page sequence, using layout , at page 1
Master : no first page, use odd page
 first page master is [\Odd: ]
 odd page master is [\Odd: ]
 even page master is [\Odd: ]
 blank page master is [\Odd: ]
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again> 
                   \Odd: 
l.2 ...="en"><fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                                                  <fo:block><fo:block font-f...

? 
)
Runaway argument?
\csname\endcsname\Odd: :xsl-region-body\endcsname \csname Atomic:\POdd \ETC.
! File ended while scanning use of \@Pass.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
<*> test.fo
           
? 

*
! Emergency stop.
<*> test.fo
           
End of file on the terminal!

 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 8293 strings out of 25253
 84609 string characters out of 190202
 148379 words of memory out of 384000
 11592 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+15000
 6843 words of font info for 19 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
 38i,1n,32p,10997b,1400s stack positions out of 300i,100n,500p,50000b,4000s
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file not finished!