Bug#682950: closed by Daniel Leidert daniel.leid...@wgdd.de (Re: Bug#682944: xmllint refuses valid xref xrefstyle content when validating docbook file)

[Daniel Leidert] xref had been introduced with DocBook XML 4.3. So xmllint is correct. You content is invalid. You can either adjust the DocBook version or remove the xref elements or follow the advice xmlto gave you. Thank you very much. Updating the version from 4.2 to 4.3 worked like a

Bug#682944: xmllint refuses valid xref xrefstyle content when validating docbook file

Package: libxml2-utils Version: 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze4 I try to validate my docbook file before processing it, but after adding xrefs the document is rejected, even if the dblatex processor seem to handle the XML just fine, and the XML formatting is correct as far as I can see. This is a simple