Package: docbook-utils
Version: 0.6.13-3
Severity: normal
Tags: sid patch
WARNING: I know very little about the docbook toolchain! Please
double-check and triple-check my suggestion. Works For Me (tm)
Running
db2html foo.xml
causes unnecessary long waits (up to 30 seconds or so) if the
input document is an XML document.
I traced down the problem to the file
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.13/frontend/docbook (which is
called from /usr/bin/jw). Apparently it runs 'sgmlnorm' even
over XML documents (which should be expected to be well-formed, no?).
This is because $SGML_NORM is set to either 'sgml' or 'xml' in
/usr/bin/jw in any case (and exported), so that the check in docbook
will always lead to sgmlnorm being used.
To me it seems unnecessary to run sgmlnorm over XML input, but I
may well be wrong :)
If there is something to it, please have a look at the attached
patch, which works fine for me and fixes those long waits for me.
Cheers
-Tim
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux sceptic 2.6.0-test3-bk9 #1 Fri Aug 22 11:02:25 BST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages docbook-utils depends on:
ii docbook-dsssl 1.78-4 modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets,
ii jadetex 3.13-1 generator of printable output from
ii lynx 2.8.4.1b-5 Text-mode WWW Browser
ii perl 5.8.0-21 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sgmlspl 1.03ii-25 SGMLS-based example Perl script fo
ii sp 1.3.4-1.2.1-35 James Clark's SGML parsing tools
-- no debconf information
--- docbook.original 2003-09-21 21:17:59.000000000 +0100
+++ docbook 2003-09-22 02:52:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
# Give the location of the centralized catalog
# First try the one with a version matching the version that is indicated in
the document
centralized-catalog)
- if [ -n "$SGML_NORM" ]; then
+ if [ -n "$SGML_NORM" ] && [ "$SGML_XML" == "sgml" ]; then
SGML_NORM_OPTS='-d'
else
SGML_NORM=cat
