On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Matt Dew <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/22/2011 03:25 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Gaetan Nadon<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Xmlto is a script that selects the appropriate back-end >>> based on options and tools availability. >>> >>> Xmlto uses an xsl "fragment" which is not compatible with >>> the standard use of xsl stylesheets. The customization for >>> xhtml and fo cannot be used with xsltproc in that context. >>> It makes adoption of docbook features like olink and profiling >>> significantly more difficult. >> >> If you pass -x to xmlto instead of -m, you can use a full stylesheet >> instead of a fragment. Moving to xsltproc means you have to duplicate >> the internal smarts of xmlto. >> > > Unfortunately, with the '-x' xmlto will look for that stylesheet on the > local machine, so there's no way to use the http://... stylesheets. and we > want to use those for portability. The local catalogs detect if there are > local copies and uses them if they exist.
More importantly, xmlto always uses --nonet for xsltproc and xmllint. Do you really want builds to hang trying to fetch sheets over the network? You guys are the ones doing the doc work, so I won't try to slow you down anymore. Please put the correct justification in the commit messages, though. -- Dan _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
