Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL, DocBook 5, and Xalan

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Michael(tm) Smith wrote:

>> That would explain it. Hmm, I wonder what's easier:
>>
>> A) Fixing Xalan
>> B) Hacking all the stylesheets so they work around this bug
>> C) Switching to Saxon

> So, yeah, I think C may best way to go.
> 

Option C (Saxon) doesn't seem to work either. After adding a few 
xsl:message elements to the stylesheet to find out what's going on, 
Here's what I get:

xhtml:
      [xslt] Processing 
/Users/elharo/Projects/workspace/JDR/Java_Course_Notes.xml to 
/Users/elharo/Projects/workspace/JDR/Java_Course_Notes.xhtml
      [xslt] Loading stylesheet /opt/xml/docbook-xsl/xhtml/docbook.xsl
      [xslt] Node-set available:  true
      [xslt] Using DocBook namespace:  true
      [xslt] Root element namespace:  http://docbook.org/ns/docbook
      [xslt] SAXON 6.5.5 from Michael Kay
      [xslt] Stripping NS from DocBook 5/NG document.
      [xslt] Processing stripped document.
      [xslt] Node-set available:  true
      [xslt] Using DocBook namespace:  false
      [xslt] Root element namespace:  http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
      [xslt] SAXON 6.5.5 from Michael Kay
      [xslt] Can't strip the DocBook 5 namespace. Output will suck.
      [xslt] Messages output
      [xslt] Request for title of element with no title: book
      [xslt] No template matches book.
      [xslt] No template matches title in book.
      [xslt] No template matches info in book.
      [xslt] No template matches author in info.
...

So it seems like Saxon can find the node-set function, and it does strip 
the DocBook namespace. However, somehow it gets back into the template a 
second time where it picks up the output namespace instead of the input 
namespace. Weird.

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