Re: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 28 July 2004

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> writes:

> Michael Smith wrote:
> >Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> writes:

[...]

> >>incidentally, as I had trouble today (xslt) processing my docbook files
> >>with stylesheet wrappers pointing at
> >>http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.62.4/html/chunk.xsl (et al.),
> >>I'm wondering whether this issue also addresses URIs for docbook
> >>stylesheets. (No, I'm not using catalogs)
> >
> >
> >What trouble did you have? That's a valid address.
> 
> Valid may be, but not always stable. In fact, I find sf to be less and less
> stable (its tools (ML archives come to mind), its servers, etc.).
> For some reason sf wasn't reachable when I attempted to process my 
> documents,
> and so the build process failed.
> This is not the first time :-(

I see. Yeah, high-availability is definitely not a Sourceforge virtue.
They regularly bring the whole website down for maintenance. I doubt
it's really necessary.

But that said, I have to wonder why you are using a build process that
relies on fetching XSL stylesheets remotely each time you build.

  --Mike

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