Bug#212249: docbook2html: not accepting \n as whitespace
Package: docbook-utils
Version: 0.6.12-2
Severity: normal
I experience a strange misfeature when generating HTML code from
docbook. The parser do not treat newline as whitespace, and seem to
include it in the HTML file. I made a small example to demonstrate
the problem. I believe these two XML files should be generate the
same result:
File 1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"; []>
<book lang="en">
<bookinfo>
<title>T</title>
</bookinfo>
<chapter>
<title>T1</title>
<sect1>
<title>T12</title>
<para></para>
<para>P</para>
<para>P1</para>
<para>P12</para>
<para>P123</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>T123</title>
<para>P1234</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
</book>
File 2:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"; []>
<book lang="en">
<bookinfo>
<title>
T
</title>
</bookinfo>
<chapter>
<title>
T1
</title>
<sect1>
<title>
T12
</title>
<para>
</para>
<para>
P
</para>
<para>
P1
</para>
<para>
P12
</para>
<para>
P123
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>
T123
</title>
<para>
P1234
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
</book>
The only difference is the newline between the tags and the content.
When generating HTML from these two sources using 'docbook2html
--nochunks', the HTML code have differences like this:
--- test.en.html 2003-09-13 23:41:04.000000000 +0000
+++ test.en2.html 2003-09-13 23:41:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
<HTML
><HEAD
><TITLE
->T</TITLE
+> T
+ </TITLE
><META
NAME="GENERATOR"
CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"></HEAD
Notice the extra ' ' inserted in front of the book title. Why is
this so? Is it a bug in the parser, or something else?
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux minerva.hungry.com 2.4.19-386 #1 Mon Nov 18 21:50:03 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=no_NO, LC_CTYPE=no_NO
Versions of packages docbook-utils depends on:
ii docbook-dsssl 1.76-1 Modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets,
ii jadetex 3.12-2 LaTeX macros for SGML to DVI/PS/PD
ii links 0.96.20020409-2 Character mode WWW browser
ii lynx 2.8.4.1b-3.2 Text-mode WWW Browser
ii perl 5.6.1-8.3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sgmlspl 1.03ii-20 SGMLS-based example Perl script fo
ii sp 1.3.4-1.2.1-28 James Clark's SGML parsing tools
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