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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:06:44 +0000, Tony Hoyle <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote: >David Somers wrote: >> Tony Hoyle wrote: > >> OK. I can now get xmlto to process cvs.dbk successfully, but only by >> disabling strict validation... in other words, your docbook-file doesn't >> conform fully to the docbook DTD... if I grok the error message I was >> seeing correctly, around line 15337 lurks the problem (the wrong tag). >> >It does actually... xsltproc validates it correctly, and the xml editor >(xmlmind) validates it on startup. Not to mention the documentation is >rebuilt for every build script. This points to a bug in xmlto. > >Line 15337 is perfectly valid docbook.. it's just an indexterm clause. > >I had a look at it - apart from not supporting the stringparam options >(so you can't build the docs anyway since the page names would be wrong) >it generates incorrect code - try building a pdf... you get a lot of >syntax errors from latex as it's generating unparsable tex files. > >Really you'd be better off sticking to the standard build script for this. > Yes, and I went through this process about a year ago when I wanted to be able to build the CVSNT helpfiles. What I did is documented here: http://web.telia.com/~u86216177/Howto_CompileCVSNTHelp.txt This document is also checked in to the cvsnt souce tree (in the doc folder) so if you check out the sources you will get this file as well. Hope this helps /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)