Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: srcdir/objdir issues and including variableusability issues with xsltproc

[John Levon <levon at movementarian dot org>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:25:37PM -0800, Alex Lancaster wrote:

>  http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/Catalogs.html
> 
> and more specifically to locate XSL stylesheets:
> 
>  http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/Catalogs.html#d0e1733

I'm aware of catalogs. They aren't a solution because users have to
modify their boxes.

> By default xsltproc will look for catalogs in /etc/xml/catalog, so if
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> you set that up to point to right place(s) for the installed DocBook
> files, your users won't need to modify their environment at all.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is a direct contradiction. The XML tools are hard enough to
install, I do not want to request some extra configuration.

I have wished for a long time that all the Linux distributions would add
their xsl-stylesheets installation path as a catalog entry, but this
hasn't (to my knowledge) happened. Additionally, xsltproc does not have
an option for adding a temporary catalog entry that I could see.

Of course, this does not solve the problem of finding the .xsl files I
need on top of the DocBook ones, or the other problems I mentioned.

Thanks anyway,
john