Re: [Refdb-users] xhtml references don't start on new line

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

David Nebauer wrote:

> At 
> <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200203/msg00216.html> 
> we find no less a luminary than Norm Walsh explaining that the Saxon 
> problem is due to a bug which will be fixed in the next Saxon 
> release.  Obviously, Markus' version of Saxon includes the bug fix.  
> Amazing that the Debian Sarge version is so out of date ...
>
> So, thanks Markus for fixing the problems so far.  Looks like I need 
> an up-to-date Saxon.


Yep, Saxon 6.5.4 renders xhtml perfectly where 6.4.4 did not.

For those of you wondering why I wasn't running 6.5 in the first place, 
and with 30 seconds to spare, prepare to be amazed...

(This assumes a passing familiarity with Debian.)

The package lib-saxon-java contains the saxon processor.  It was frozen 
at 6.4.4 for reasons known only to it's packager.  The bug reports are 
full of pleas to upgrade it to 6.5.x so that, wait for it, people could 
render xhtml.  Unfortunately, the maintainer simply refused.

In response, a new package called libsaxon-java was created (in case you 
missed it, they removed the first hyphen).  It tracks the latest stable 
version.  This package was put in 'contrib', not 'main'.  And guess who 
didn't have contrib listed in his sources.list file and therefore never 
saw it?

While I love it dearly, this kind of thing could only happen on Planet 
Debian.

For those of you who followed me on this, I hope you enjoyed the ride.  
At least we found a few bugs along the way.

Regards,
David.