I have had success (woo-hoo) formatting the sample website.xml file that is in Norm's website.dtd distribution, but with xt, not with xalan_j. Xalan works with some of its simple examples, but here's what it produces with the website.xml sample:
--- snip --- # java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in website.xml -xsl ../xsl/website.xsl -HTML ========= Parsing file:/home/ruptured-duck/docbook-website-dtd/example/../xsl/website.xsl ========== Parse of file:/home/ruptured-duck/docbook-website-dtd/example/../xsl/website.xsl took 17691 milliseconds ========= Parsing file:/home/ruptured-duck/docbook-website-dtd/example/website.xml ========== http://docbook.org/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd; Line 66; Column 9 XSL Error: Could not parse file:/home/ruptured-duck/docbook-website-dtd/example/website.xml document! XSLT: Recursive reference "%dbnotn;". (Reference path: (top-level)-%docbook;-%dbhier;-%dbnotn;-%dbnotn;) Xalan: was not successful. --- snip --- I mention this both to follow up on recent posts by myself, and because I note an ITP for xalan has been mentioned on debian-devel. Ergo, here is my little heads-up wrt xalan (maybe it's common knowledge): that I was successful in short order with xt suggests to me that there's a shortfall in xalan's ability to deal with DocBook. Indeed, according to some recent correspondence on DOCBOOK-APPS, xalan right now is too buggy to handle DocBook dtd's. -- Bob Bernstein http://www.ruptured-duck.com
