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Re: Build the Debian Reference Card



On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:42:07 +0100 (BST)
"Paul Cager" <paul@endon.paulcager.org> wrote:

> >
> > The error that led to you removing --nonet is actually more important
> > than any results you get AFTER removing --nonet.
> > ;-)
> >
> 
> Refcard.xsl contained:
> 
>   <xsl:import href="http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/docbook.xsl"/>
> 
> Which failed "xsl:import : unable to load
> http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/docbook.xsl";

Then find out which package contains that file and install it. XSL
stylesheets are rarely stand-alone and often use import recursively.

> >> so that it can
> >> download "http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/docbook.xsl";, but now it
> >> fails:
> >
> > See above. I suspect that the source itself is now incompatible with the
> > chosen XSL stylesheet. Either the source needs to be updated or a
> > different stylesheet selected.
> >
> >> paul@proxy:~/refcard/trunk$ make
> >> xsltproc --novalid --xinclude preproc.xsl entries-bg.dbk
> >
> > Needing to use --novalid is also a bad sign.
> >
> > The document is Copyright 2004/5 so it is probably in dire need of
> > updates to the DocBook and/or selection of an updated XSL stylesheet.
> 
> Yes. I probably need to learn rather a lot before I can do that!

Try seeing how a working XSL conversion works - apt-get source pilot-qof
for example, and build that. Watch the commands being used and start
from there. This is well off-topic for debian-devel and I don't have
time to tutor you through XSL and docbook either on or off list.

-- 


Neil Williams
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