I have some experience wrangling DocBook for the FreeBSD project; if
you'd be happy to tar up a copy of your workspace and email it over I'd
be glad to take a look if it will help.
Ceri
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:45:08PM -0700, Rainer Heilke wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Well, the new sources didn't help. I checked the script, and it already
> accounted for $BOOK.xml and $BOOK.book, so that was OK.
>
> I updated the script to use common/xsolbook.dtd if there was no local dtd.
>
> The script continues spewing parse errors faster than a dog scratching
> fleas. Here's a (very) small sample after a ^C:
>
> sparcpackagelist-sxde.xml:3242: parser error : Entity 'check' not defined
> </entry><entry><para>✓</para>
> ^
> sparcpackagelist-sxde.xml:3243: parser error : Entity 'check' not defined
> </entry><entry><para>✓</para>
> ^
> sparcpackagelist-sxde.xml:3250: parser error : Entity 'check' not defined
> </entry><entry><para>✓</para>
> ^
> sparcpackagelist-sxde.xml:3251: parser error : Entity 'check' not defined
> </entry><entry><para>✓</para>
> ^
> sparcpackagelist-sxde.xml:3252: parser error : Entity 'check' not defined
> </entry><entry><para>✓</para>
> ^
> ...and so on for every page. I also saw the same for 'nbsp', 'ndash',
> and others.
>
> Each book seems to end with something like:
>
> zfstrouble.xml:713: parser error : chunk is not well balanced
> </chapter>
> ^
> ZFSADMIN.book:53: parser error : Failure to process entity zfstrouble
> differences;&zfspools;&zfsfs;&zfssnaps;&zfsacls;&zfsdeladm;&advanced;&zfstrouble
>
> ^
> ZFSADMIN.book:53: parser error : Entity 'zfstrouble' not defined
> differences;&zfspools;&zfsfs;&zfssnaps;&zfsacls;&zfsdeladm;&advanced;&zfstrouble
>
> ^
> unable to parse ZFSADMIN.book
> /work/DocTools/fop-0.94/fop: IFS=^J: is not an identifier
>
> This last line indicates there may be a problem with the FOP tool (and a
> look at the relevant line in the fop script bears this out), but I think
> this is (as yet) irrelevant. Looking at the interim .fo files being
> generated, they're all 0 bytes. If I have time, I'll do some more hunting.
>
> So, no new PDFs yet. :-(
>
> >> OK, I'll work on updating the script for the changes you mentioned
> >> probably Saturday. So, with luck and the fixed source, maybe I can
> >> have the PDF tarball up sometime Sunday PM.
> >>
> >>> OK, we found an offending parameter entity reference which is
> >>> probably the cause of the parser errors. I will push again tomorrow
> >>> and let you know when new sources are available, thanks as always for
> >>> your time to run the script and for reporting this.
>
> Rainer
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-- Moliere
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