Re: [Refdb-users] docbook5, getting started

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Tim Arnold <jti...@gm...> was heard to say:

> As for the problem with the chapter vs book root element:
> When I have a source xml file (test1_full.xml) with chapter as the
> root and citations like this:
> <citation role="REFDB"><xref linkend="IDbart_m66-X"/></citation>.
>
> runbib gives me an error:
> -----------------------------------
> runbib -d saslatexbib -S Chicago -t db50x test1_full.xml
> Variable $SGML_CATALOG_FILES not set
> Please enter your password:
> Parse error at line 1:
> no element found
> error
> -----------------------------------
>

I see. This is caused by a limitation of  
/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/citations.xsl. This stylesheet is used to  
extract the citations from the source document and write them into the  
foo.id.xml file. For reasons that I don't quite understand right now,  
the script limits itself to processing book and article elements. As a  
short term fix you could simply extend the regexp in line 39 like this  
(untested!):

         <xsl:template match="article|d:article|chapter|d:chapter">

I'll try to figure out if there was some obscure reason for this  
limitation. If not I'll adapt the stylesheet to the current DocBook V5  
top-level elements.

regards,
Markus

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