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Old 02-01-2006, 10:11 PM   #1
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could not locate docbookx.dtd for DocBook XML


my gnome build is erroring with this message:

could not locate docbookx.dtd for DocBook XML

I've reinstalled libxml2, and docbook-xsl-1.69.1.tar.bz2 (whatever that is). No luck. I can find things on the internet telling me just to install a package, but I not using package management for this system.

Anyone know where this magic docbookx.dtd is supplied from?
 
Old 02-02-2006, 02:52 PM   #2
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google is your friend. Using the search function of the internet will solve 99% of your questions immediately
http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian...-catalogs.html
 
Old 02-11-2006, 04:26 PM   #3
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I know I'm being lazy, but I'm looking for a (tar xvfz file.tar.gz ; ./configure ; make ; make install ) type thing. That's a link to information about docbook, which I don't really care about right now. I just ran into this problem again, and once again I commented out the docbook line in the post-install.

Does anyone know an easy way to fix this without figuring out the details of XML, SGML, and docbook?
 
Old 02-11-2006, 05:55 PM   #4
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now, after hacking my way through docbook and backtracking through configure scripts, I finally figured out that it's using the xmlcatalog (that garnome installed) somehow. I found the garnome/etc/xml/catalog file, which is suposed to be an XML catalog, I guess. I hacked around with symlinks, and figured out that if I link that file to docbkx/docbook.cat, or the 4.1.2 version of the docbook catalog, the configure script will locate it.

BUT WAIT!!!!

now I get this.

Code:
configure:4108: $XMLCATALOG --noout "$XML_CATALOG_FILE" "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl" >&2
No entry for SYSTEM http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl
No entry for URI http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl
configure:4111: $? = 4
configure:4116: result: not found
configure:4118: error: could not find DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog
This machine isn't directly on the internet. And that URL is HARDCODED into the configure script. This had better not be trying to access an external site just for some documentation tool.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
Old 02-11-2006, 06:03 PM   #5
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I managed to force it to continue by adding this line to the catalog file ->

SYSTEM "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl" "chunk.xsl"

I fetched the file and put it in garnome/etc/xml. I can't find anything on the entire internet which gives me any instruction to do this.

Was I just supposed to magically know XML catalogs?
 
Old 02-14-2006, 03:12 AM   #6
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how to update the xml catalog on debian ->

update-xmlcatalog --add --file docbookx.dtd --local /usr/glibc2/etc/xml/catalog --type public --verbose --id foobar

I guess xml tree manipulation is system-dependant. I didn't know that. And even that doesn't make the stock configure scripts of most libs find it. I still got a lot of hacking to do.

Last edited by dombrowsky; 02-14-2006 at 03:14 AM.
 
Old 02-14-2006, 03:39 AM   #7
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turns out you just have to dump the contents of the docbook archive files into a standard place to search for xml files. I copied the contents of docbkx412.zip and docbook-xsl-1.69.1.tar.bz2 into /usr/glibc2/opt/etc/xml (I had to use the garnome build dir), and then it worked. The garnome scripts (in libxml2) that needed it just used find(1) to get the files they needed anyway.
 
  


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