xmlto, further down the road

[Steve Whitlatch <swhitlat@getnet.net>]

Hello everyone, 

On the subject of getting xmlto setup on my Linux box, 
I used some instructions from the Suse Linux distribution
to get a little further. If anyone wants the info, let me 
know. My box is a slackware system that I've upgraded 
and customized for years. I am not about to leave it 
for red hat or any other distribution.

I don't have xmlto working properly yet. The same error 
occurs with "xmlto pdf xmlto.xml", 
"xmlto ps xmlto.xml", and "xmlto dvi xmlto.xml" 

Here's what happens:
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Making portrait pages on letter paper (8.5inx11in)
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(./tmp.fo
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
xmltex version: 2002/06/25 v1.9 (Exp):
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/xmltex.cfg) 
No File: tmp.cfg (/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/passivetex/fotex.xmt)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/passivetex/fotex.sty
)
No file tmp.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)
INFO: Using normal, i.e. nonfrench-spacing in document
! Argument of \XML@getattrib has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
l.2 ...efore region-name="xsl-region-before-blank"
                                                   extent="0.4in" 
display-al...
? 
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
l.2 ...efore region-name="xsl-region-before-blank"
                                                   extent="0.4in" 
display-al...
No pages of output.
Transcript written on tmp.log.
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Matches for "\XML@getattrib" are on line 324 and 634 of xmltex.tex 
(xmltex.tex,v 1.9). As the error message states, the extra "}" is 
being passed along with an argument. I'm not sure what calls 
xmltex.tex's "\XML@getattrib". I don't think I can go any further 
with this. 

Is this a bug, or do I still not have xmlto (and friends) properly 
installed? Where to from here? 

Thanks, 

Steve Whitlatch