As I noted in the previous post (below), merely letting XSLTPROC find
the Common_Content files does not let it do the transformation
successfully. Analyzing the changes I needed to make to those files to
get past the error messages from XSLTPROC reveals that Publican ignores
the DOCTYPE declarations in those files while merging their contents
into the main document. So any errors like a mismatch between the
document type in that statement and the top level tag are not caught by
Publican. Neither are any entity substitutions processed until the
entire document is assembled. XSLTPROC on the other hand treats each
sub-document on its own, validating it against the DOCTYPE statement and
substituting any entity references before merging the result into the
document.
So the bad news is that there is no work-around for this issue - the
files must be changed in order to be successfully processed by XSLTPROC.
But the good news is that the changes only affect the DOCTYPE statements
which are ignored by Publican when doing the merge so the changes should
not prevent building the documents with Publican. I am opening a
document bug for these changes - #270 - which will contain a patch file
for all the Common_Content files. If someone who has a Windows 7 system
w/ a working Publican installation could apply the patches and then
verify that Publican can still build the docs, we will know if the
patches can be committed.
One other bit of good news is that the combination of these patches and
the Common_Content sub-folder work-around are the only required changes
in order to use the XSLTPROC and FOP tools to successfully build our
documents. I will describe that process in my next post.
On 1/6/2020 2:07 PM, Gil Barmwater wrote:
Having gotten by the Common_Content issue, running XSLTPROC reveals
another problem caused by the way Publican does the merge of the
Common_Content files which I will describe in the next posting.
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Gil Barmwater
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