A reaction and a question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

  Okay, first the reaction:
    woke up this morning, checked my IRC logs, found the following:
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[08:31:45] <kmaraas> muet: I ran into some errors when installing scrollkeeper-0.3.5
[08:32:54] <kmaraas> muet: /var/lib/scrollkeeper/TOC/7 was generating xml errors
[08:33:06] <muet> hi kmaraas
[08:33:16] <kmaraas> muet: and I had to hand edit it to get it to be valid xml
[08:33:22] <kmaraas> muet: hi btw, :)
[08:33:47] <muet> kmaraas: The file .../TOC/7 was invalid XML?
[08:34:08] <kmaraas> muet: I think all the tags had some char added to them inside the <>
[08:34:17] <greg> kmaraas, a comma?
[08:34:23] <muet> kmaraas: Were they commas (,)?
[08:34:25] <muet> :)
[08:34:28] <kmaraas> yes
[08:34:42] <kmaraas> muet: is that fixed now?
[08:34:43] <muet> kmaraas: Ah, HallskiZz had the same problem.
[08:35:03] <kmaraas> post-install script weirdness?
[08:35:06] <greg> muet, ok, I've figured out that bug!  scrollkeeper doesn't like Northlanders.  :-)
[08:35:15] <muet> kmaraas: It seems to be something with libxml or libxslt, but nobody understands what it is.
[08:35:20] <muet> (except greg;)
[08:35:38] <kmaraas> muet: I can see if it happens again if I reinstall
[08:35:48] <greg> I haven't actually looked at the bug in much detail
[08:35:53] <kmaraas> still at dmuet uchicago edu?
[08:35:58] <greg> except to say "yeah, that XML looks bogus"
[08:36:01] <muet> kmaraas: I'm at muet alumni uchicago edu
[08:36:07] <kmaraas> ok
[08:36:28] <muet> kmaraas: I suspect it is reproducable with your current configuration, as it was with Hallski
[08:36:52] <muet> kmaraas: The ScrollKeeper stylesheet looks decent I think.
[08:37:10] <muet> kmaraas: I'll send you an email or two I sent to Hallski about it though...
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  Guys, this is frustrating. There is a bug, at least 2 persons have seen
it, it seems related to libxslt not doing the right thing, I asked for
a reproductible test but didn't got anything, not even basic informations
about the platform being used.
  If there is a bug, it need to be fixed, and if I don't get informations
about it I hardly see how I can fix it.


   Okay not about the question, on a different topic. I just commited
a patch to gnome-xml head which may improve the speed of processing DocBook
quite a bit. I would be interested if you could cvs update, recompile libxml2
and relink the applications (after saving the old version) using libxslt
and try to benchmark the HTML formating on real examples. I.e. look at the
time needed with the previous binary to do the same processing, It may have
a serious impact ... or not, and I would like to know.

Daniel

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