RE: [docbook-apps] docbook-xsl "gentext" template not working with MSXML

["Robert Shields" <rshields@star.net.uk>]

Hi,

I've temporarily worked around the entity problem by copying the
contents of en.xml into l10n.xml - obviously this is not a long term
solution.

I seem to be getting some good functionality even without the exslt
extensions. Are they absolutely essential? If yes, I will switch to
either Saxon or xsltproc as they are the recommended parsers for docbook
xsl, as I understand.

Regards,

Rob Shields
Software Engineer
Star Internet Ltd
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sco.com] 
Sent: 17 October 2003 16:54
To: Robert Shields
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook-xsl "gentext" template not working
with MSXML


On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:14:32AM +0100, Robert Shields wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having problems getting this template to work with MSXML, it 
> always fails to find a match for the following variables:
> 
> 
> <xsl:template name="gentext">
>   ...
>   <xsl:variable name="local.l10n.gentext"
>  
> select="($local.l10n.xml//l:i18n/l:l10n[@language=$lang]/l:gentext[@ke
> y=
> $key])[1]"/>
> 
>   <xsl:variable name="l10n.gentext"
>  
> select="($l10n.xml/l:i18n/l:l10n[@language=$lang]/l:gentext[@key=$key]
> )[
> 1]"/>
> 
> I have added a test to the gentext template:
> 
> <xsl:template name="gentext">
>   ...
>   lang:<xsl:value-of select="$lang"/>,
>   count:<xsl:value-of select="count($l10n.xml//*)"/>
> 
>   <xsl:for-each select="$l10n.xml//*">
> 	<br/>
> 	name:[<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>]
> 	value:[<xsl:value-of select="."/>]
>   </xsl:for-each>
> 
> 
> 
> which creates the output:
> 
>   lang:en, count:1
>   name:[l:i18n] value:[ ]
> 
> 
> 
> This suggests that the !ENTITY elements are not working in 
> /common/l10.xml, as there should be many more elements than one!
> 
> I guess this is a bug in MSXML. Short of copying the contents of 
> en.xml into l10n.xml, is anyone aware of a workaround?

I'm pretty sure it is a bug in MSXML.  I sometimes use an
XSL debugger that is based on MSXML.  It also fails
to read the gentext entities in the Docbook XSL stylesheets.

MSXML also doesn't support the exslt extensions that
are used in the stylesheets.  Is it possible to
switch to another processor?

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