[Refdb-users] FO stylesheet problem #2: docbook xml book converts to invalid FO

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

David Nebauer writes:
 > Since the source file converts to html perfectly the problem appears to 
 > lie with the refdb fo stylesheets.  Since docbook xml articles do not 
 > appear to produce the same error, it involves something specific to 
 > docbookx books -- or at least not affecting docbookx articles.  Once 
 > again, however, I am insufficiently knowledgeable about xsl (and fo) to 
 > determine the cause of the problem.
 > 

There's a few things we can do to address this problem. First of all,
your hand-coded test document #1 does not contain a bibliography. I
don't expect this to be the reason, but you should probably provide a
hand-coded bibliography to test the stock DocBook stylesheet
bibliography code.

Second, you could attempt to process the document using the stock
DocBook stylesheets. The result will be more than ugly, but this could
help to isolate the problem. If the RefDB driver files are the
culprit, the DocBook fo stylesheets should transform the document
without errors, regardless of how nasty the output is going to look.

Third, I suspect that a version mismatch might cause the problem. In
contrast to the more or less static DSSSL stylesheets, the XSLT
stylesheets have changed quite a bit since I implemented the RefDB
driver files. It is quite likely that the templates that the driver
files override have to be updated to a recent version of the stock
DocBook stylesheets. I'll try to find some time next week to look into
this.

In general, the bibliography code in the fo stylesheets is a lot more
complex than in the html stylesheets, as it has to take care of things
like recto/verso, proper pagination and such. Therefore it is not
surprising that it is easier to confuse than the html output.

regards,
Markus

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