docbook document problems

Mig21 · 10-12-2006, 11:49 PM

hi

i'm trying to compile my docbook document into html using the the db2html script on my slackware 11 box but get all these errors:

Code:

Working on: /path/spyware.sgml
jade:/path/spyware.sgml:5:14:E: document type does not allow element "PARA" here
jade:/path/spyware.sgml:5:34:E: end tag for "CHAPTER" which is not finished
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:1:73:W: cannot generate system identifier for public text "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN"
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:11:0:E: reference to entity "STYLE-SHEET" for which no system identifier could be generated
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:1:0: entity was defined here
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:11:0:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for document type name
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:5:0:E: notation "DSSSL" for entity "docbook.dsl" undefined
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:36:12:E: element "STYLE-SHEET" undefined
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:39:24:E: there is no attribute "ID"
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:39:36:E: there is no attribute "USE"
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:39:45:E: element "STYLE-SPECIFICATION" undefined
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:40:25:E: element "STYLE-SPECIFICATION-BODY" undefined
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:508:44:E: element "STYLE-SPECIFICATION" undefined
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:509:25:E: element "STYLE-SPECIFICATION-BODY" undefined
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:1059:27:E: there is no attribute "ID"
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:1059:46:E: there is no attribute "DOCUMENT"
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:1059:59:E: element "EXTERNAL-SPECIFICATION" undefined
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:1061:13:E: end tag for "EXTERNAL-SPECIFICATION" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl:1059:0: start tag was here
jade:E: specification document does not have the DSSSL architecture as a base architecture
jade:E: no style-specification or external-specification with ID "HTML"

judging by the searches i did for the errors this is some kind of stylesheet issue. i have no idea what to do about it. it used to work on slackware 10.2

it's a generic, fresh slackware 11 install, i didn't have the time to mess it up

can someone help?

thanks in advance

danieldk · 10-14-2006, 09:41 AM

Is the XML file well-formed and valid? The best way to check this is by using xmllint:

Code:

xmllint --valid --noout yourfile.xml

The "--valid" flags check whether the file conforms to the DTD. Please remember that XML is very strict, so there is a relatively big chance that your XML file still contains errors. If something is wrong with the DocBook installation, xmllint usually provides useful output.

Carlos E R Diogenes · 12-11-2006, 01:11 PM

I was having this problem while trying to compile the GNOME module fontconfig with jhbuild.

I change the line (~ 76), in /usr/bin/jw:
SGML_EXTRA_CATALOGS="" to SGML_EXTRA_CATALOGS=":/etc/sgml/catalog"

and everything processed fine!

I think that this can be a default extra catalog in slackware. Where we can ask for this add?

Mig21 · 12-15-2006, 07:08 PM

oh my god, it was so simple!

thanks dude. i wrote up an article about this so googlers can hopefully find it, check it out