[Refdb-users] User feedback 3

[David N. <dav...@bi...>]

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6. If refdbxml is edited to set saxon as default processor, the make 
procedure fails.

The problem occurs with file docbk-refdblib.xsl.  Here is the output:

$ make html
refdbxp -t db31x < basic-doc.short.xml > basic-doc.xml
runbib -d refs_computing -S Eur.J.Pharmacol. -t db31x basic-doc.xml
5 reference(s) formatted, 0 failed

refdbxml -s Eur.J.Pharmacol.html.xsl -t html basic-doc.xml
Error at xsl:with-param on line 74 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-html/docbk-refdb-html.xsl:
  Variable ADVSTURLSTYLE has not been declared
Error at xsl:choose on line 1826 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  Element must only be used within a template body
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1828 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1831 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1834 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1837 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1840 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1843 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1846 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1849 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1852 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1855 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1858 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1861 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1864 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1867 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1870 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1873 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1876 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1879 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1882 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1885 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1888 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1891 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1894 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1897 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1900 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1903 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1906 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1909 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1912 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1915 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1918 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1921 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1924 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1927 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Error at xsl:with-param on line 1930 of 
file:/usr/local/share/refdb/xsl/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-lib/docbk-refdblib.xsl:
  xsl:with-param cannot appear as a child of xsl:when
Transformation failed: Failed to compile stylesheet. 37 errors detected.


My powers of XSL-fu are weak, so I cannot say why this this occurring 
with saxon and not with xsltproc.  Is saxon being too picky?  It is a 
problem, however, as it is occurring with one of the major xsl 
processors.  This was a large problem for me because I initially set 
refdbxml to use saxon (it was my default parser until refdb) and had no 
end of problems.

7. Staying with saxon, if it is ever able to work with refdb, it would 
be good to have an option to run it with the xerces parser.  This 
requires a (lengthy) command line option, but it should be rather doable.

I have found that using xerces with saxon results in much better 
processing of some entities such as quotes and n/mdashes, especially in 
html output.

[To be continued...]

Regards,
David.