Re: docbook-xsl: why only one version ?

[Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net>]

Hello,

On 02/06/13 18:54, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Jérome,
> 
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net> wrote:
> [...]
>> In short, the initial question may be rephrase:
>> what there is no `catalog' policy for docbook-xsl on Debian ?
> 
> I believe there is a slight misunderstanding. /etc/xml/catalog is
> properly setup on your debian system.

I have no doubt about it.

I guess that what I do not get is the meaning of docbook-xsl versionning
for the metadata 


 However it is only used when
> validating docbook 4.x or 5.x instances.
> 
> There should not be any difference in between using docbook-xsl 1.75
> or docbook-xsl 1.76. Those are XSLT filters, they are only used during
> the transformation of your docbook XML file into a different
> representation (manpage, HTML, PDF ...).

or imported inside other xsl filters.


> 
> If you believe you found an issue with docbook >> 1.75.2,


I guess it fine.

 please
> report it using our BTS. docbook-xsl is pretty good at preserving
> backward compatibility.
> 

I think I am getting a better idea of my issue:
the upstream furnished xsl files (XSLT filters ?) certainly depends
via `import' on the xsl files of docbook-xsl 1.72.2 material while
they should not: in short, they are (very) badly written in the sense
that they do not follows the basic docbook rules.
I guess I was misled by them.

Very sorry for the noise,
Jerome


> thanks.