Re: Minutes of Gnome 2 release team meeting (late): 2002-05-17

[Jens Finke <jens triq net>]

On Tue, 28 May 2002, James Henstridge wrote:
> Have you tried installing the docbook DTD and XSLT packages available
> from the scrollkeeper project webpages?  Many people have found them to
> work quite well.  You can download them from here:
>     http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/docbook.shtml
>
> They _should_ make it very easy to get a working docbook/xml setup.  You
> could try some of Malcolm's tests after doing the install to verify that
> they are installed correctly.

I've tried this some weeks ago. But IIRC they work only reliable for a
RedHat like system. I use SuSE as base system and AFAICT they use a very
different docbook/DTD setup (package names, paths). So no, it didn't work
for me.

> In my opinion, if a program says "please include the contents of the
> stylesheet available at http://...";, I would expect it to do go out onto
> the internet to fetch it.  The XML catalog is simply a cache for XML
> resources such as DTDs and stylesheets, so that they don't need to be
> downloaded.

Then give me please an URL where this whole DTD/CATALOG/stylesheet thingy
is explained. I couldn't find any. They all say "on Redhat it works this
way", but there are no generic explanation (but it's likely that I just
couldn't find it).

Believe it or not: Installing our help system is _NOT_ a trivial task and
reading other mails on this subject I think I am not the only one who has
such problems.

Regards,

    Jens

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