Package: pandoc Version: 1.12.4.2~dfsg-1+b14 This issue is also present with pandoc version 1.17.2~dfsg-3 in unstable.
When trying to convert a Norwegian text file from markdown to docbook using pandoc, the resulting docbook file contain section IDs rejected by dblatex if the section title have non-ascii characters. This script demonstrate the problem: ============================================================================= #!/bin/sh # Script demonstrating invalid docbook output from pandoc. cat << EOF > dblatex-nonascii-title-book.xml <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <?xml-stylesheet href="docbook-css-0.4/driver.css" type="text/css"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; []> <book id="index" lang="nb"> <bookinfo> <title>demontrate problem in title</title> </bookinfo> <xi:include href="dblatex-nonascii-title-first-level.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> </book> EOF cat <<EOF> dblatex-nonascii-title-first-level.xml <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd";> <chapter> <title>chapter title</title> <xi:include href="dblatex-nonascii-title-second-level.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> </chapter> EOF cat <<EOF> dblatex-nonascii-title-second-level.md The title with æøå ÆØÅ ======================== For some reason, this do not work. subtitle with æøå ÆØÅ --------------------- This do not work either EOF pandoc -f markdown -t docbook dblatex-nonascii-title-second-level.md \ --output dblatex-nonascii-title-second-level.xml # This result in <sect1 id="the-title-with-æøå-æøå">, which is an # invalid docbook ID according to dblatex. dblatex dblatex-nonascii-title-book.xml ============================================================================= It would be nice if pandoc created IDs with only ascii characters. If you believe this is a problem with dblatex instead, please reassign it there. I've tested using dblatex 0.3.5-2 and 0.3.9-1. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
