Re: [docbook] ePub converter

[Keith Fahlgren <abdelazer@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Boris Schäling <boris@highscore.de> wrote:
> I tried to convert a Docbook 5 article to an ePub file and got three
> warnings followed by a runtime error:
>
> C:\Dokumente und
> Einstellungen\Boris\Desktop\ruby-1.9.1-p376-i386-mswin32\bin>ruby.exe
> "..\..\..\Eigene Dateien\Highscore\docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2\epub\bin\dbtoepub"
> "..\..\article\index.xml"
> warning: failed to load external entity "und"
> warning: failed to load external entity
> "Einstellungen/Boris/Desktop/article/.collapsed.index.xml'"
> warning: failed to load external entity "'../../article/index.xml'"
> C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Boris/Eigene
> Dateien/Highscore/docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2/epub/bin/lib/docbook.rb:122:in
> `collapse_docbook': Could not collapse named entites in
> ..\..\article\index.xml (RuntimeError)
>
> I don't know Ruby. But the warnings make me think that the script has a
> problem with blanks in the path and/or something (xmllint?) gets confused
> about the slashes (which should be backslashes?).

Interesting. I think that I tried to write it in a platform
independent manner, but I have not tested it on Windows. Do you get
the same error if you run it in the article\ folder itself?



Keith