Re: [sr-dev] Why fetch docbook stylesheets remotely?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Olle E. Johansson <oej(a)edvina.net> wrote: This should not happen if you have a local copy of docbook xsl stylesheets on your computer and those stylesheets can be located using the catalog file in sip-router/docbook/catalog.xml. The catalog file contains references for Docbook 4.3, have you changed the docbook version number in documentation files perhaps? If yes then this could be the reason why the build system tries to download XSL stylesheets from the internet. The whole system works as follows: 1) All documentation files refer to docbook using public identifiers. Public identifiers use HTTP URIs as identifiers: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd 2) If you try to compile a docbook file into README, the toochain needs to first convert the docbook file to HTML and then convert it to a plaintext file with lynx. To convert the docbook file into HTML, it needs Docbook XSLT stylesheets. 3) The processor tool consults sip-router/docbook/catalog.xml file for instructions where to find the XSLT stylesheets. The catalog file refers to /etc/xml/catalog which is a system wide catalog file. If you have the XSLT stylesheets installed on your computer then they are registered in /etc/xml/catalog and thus the tool will use the local copy and will not download it from the internet. 4) If a local copy of XSLT stylesheets cannot be found in the catalog then it will simply try to download it using the HTTP uri present in the documentation file. If you have a local copy of XSLT stylesheets for docbook (in debian they are in the package docbook-xslt, docbook DTD files are in docbook-xml) then there is either problem in the catalog file in sip-router/docbook/catalog.xml or the source documentation files are referring to a wrong version of docbook. Which documentation files are causing problems? -- Jan