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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: External Docbook XSLT: status update
From:       "Yuri Chornoivan" <yurchor () ukr ! net>
Date:       2010-10-05 4:08:29
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написане Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:15:02 +0300, Luigi Toscano  
<luigi.toscano@tiscali.it>:

> Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
>
>> OK. I fixed it upstream (it takes almost one year between bug report and
>> response, but it works!). Please move all docbooks to DocBook 5.0 with  
>> my
>> fixes (UTF-8 out of box). ;)
> Let me explain a bit how it work.
>
> The DocBook repository contains many different projects: one of them is
> DocBook XML DTDs, and we already uses the system-provided ones. We use  
> version
> 4.2, the last version of 4.x series is 4.5 (and we could think about  
> migrating
> to this version in the not-so-far-future) and the last version is  
> 5.something
> (a migration could be planned for kdelibs 5.x). DocBook XML DTDs (as all  
> the
> the DTDs do) define the structure of the docbook documents.
> Another project is DocBook XSL, which is made by XSL Stylesheet that are  
> used
> to transform from XML (DocBook 4.x or 5.x in this case) to other formats:
> xhtml, html, manpages, pdf, etc. The last version is 1.75.2 [1]. The  
> current
> trunk will be probably the base for version 1.76. It's not Docbook 5.
>
> The issue with manpages was exactly the reason why I started working on  
> this
> cleanup: we applied a local solution that was useless upstream. We were
> maintaining a fork. And also, the issue with entities replacement was  
> fixed
> upstream long time ago, please check the release notes for version 1.69:
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/RELEASE-NOTES.html#V1690_MAN
> Please note that we include DocBook XSL 1.67.2 in our sources, and 1.69  
> was
> released at least four years ago.
>
> I tried to regenerate uk documentation with a simple customization xml  
> (which
> does not contain all the possible customizations, it was only a simple  
> test)
> and it seems to work, but I can't read cyrillic :) so I attached the  
> generated
> manpages and few docbook/cache files, and the custom file that I used.  
> Can you
> please check them?
>
> [1] http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/
>
> Regards


Thank you for the detail explanation.

Attached manpages look fine. Please forgive me for the hassle. I have no  
objections to the changes now.

Best regards,
yuri

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