Re: Error during jhbuild - could not find DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 08/02/04 08:13, Gregory Merchan wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:04:17PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
>  
>
> > On 4/02/2004 1:19 PM, Daniel Cardenas wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > When trying to get the gnome 2.5 environment up using jhbuild I 
> > > receive the following error:
> > >
> > > configure: error: could not find DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog
> > >
> > > Is there an easy fix for this problem?  Is this a bug?  I'm using 
> > > debian unstable.  Is there a better newsgroup to post this type of 
> > > problem to?
> > >      
> > Did you check the README file in the gtk-doc module?
> >    
>
> I've run into the same problem. Debian now has an xml catalog provided
> by the package xml-core, so the README needs an update.
>
> Running the command in the configure script gives this:
>
>  No entry for SYSTEM http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl
>
> This bug report contains more information:
>
>  http://bugs.debian.org/230562
>
> If the Debian maintainer is correct, then I think a change is
> needed in xmlcatalog.c around lines 545-555. Something like:
>
> (starting at line 548)
>
>    if (ans == NULL) {
>        printf ("No entry for SYSTEM %s\n", argv[i]);
>        ans = xmlCatalogResolveURI ((const xmlChar *) argv[i]);
>        if (ans == NULL) {
>            printf ("No entry for URI %s\n", argv[i]);
>            exit_value = 4;
>        } else {
>            printf ("%s\n", (char *) ans);
>            xmlFree (ans);
>        }
>    } else {
>        printf ("%s\n", (char *) ans);
>        xmlFree (ans);
>    }
>
>  
Sounds like the Debian maintainer is right here.  It looks like xsltproc 
uses xmlCatalogResolveURI() to load the catalog, but there is no way to 
use the "xmlcatalog" utility to check to make sure a URI map exists in 
the catalog.  I'm CC'ing DV, in case he has any comments.

James.

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