DOCBOOK: table rendering problems with both pdf and html

[Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy at opushealthcare dot com>]

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Howdy,

[ I'm cross posting since I'm not sure if it's a docbook misunderstanding or 
an app issue ]

I'm trying to get some table output with the docbook2* tools (from the 
docbook-* packages found in redhat). I tried using the example straight out 
of the online DocBook reference (http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/table.html):

<!DOCTYPE table PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd";>
<table frame='all'><title>Sample Table</title>
<tgroup cols='5' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
<colspec colname='c1'/>
<colspec colname='c2'/>
<colspec colname='c3'/>
<colspec colnum='5' colname='c5'/>
<thead>
<row>
  <entry namest="c1" nameend="c2" align="center">Horizontal Span</entry>
  <entry>a3</entry>
  <entry>a4</entry>
  <entry>a5</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<row>
  <entry>f1</entry>
  <entry>f2</entry>
  <entry>f3</entry>
  <entry>f4</entry>
  <entry>f5</entry>
</row>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<row>
  <entry>b1</entry>
  <entry>b2</entry>
  <entry>b3</entry>
  <entry>b4</entry>
  <entry morerows='1' valign='middle'><para>  <!-- Pernicous Mixed Content -->
  Vertical Span</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
  <entry>c1</entry>
  <entry namest="c2" nameend="c3" align='center' morerows='1' 
valign='bottom'>Span Both</entry>
  <entry>c4</entry>
</row>
<row>
  <entry>d1</entry>
  <entry>d4</entry>
  <entry>d5</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>

Then I run it through docbook2html:

[mkennedy@localhost tmp]$ docbook2html table.xml
Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/xml-docbook-4.1.cat
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6/docbook-utils.dsl#html
Working on: /home/mkennedy/tmp/table.xml
jade:/home/mkennedy/tmp/table.xml:3:60:E: URL not supported by this version
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.59/html/../common/dbtable.dsl:224:13:E: 
2nd argument for primitive "ancestor" of wrong type: "#<unknown object
135911000>" not a singleton node list
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.59/html/../common/dbtable.dsl:224:13:E: 
2nd argument for primitive "ancestor" of wrong type: "#<unknown object
135911000>" not a singleton node list
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.59/html/../common/dbtable.dsl:224:13:E: 
2nd argument for primitive "ancestor" of wrong type: "#<unknown object
135911000>" not a singleton node list
<DIV
CLASS="table"
><A
NAME="AEN1"
></A
><P
><B
>Table 0. Sample Table</B
></P
>
  <TABLE
BORDER="1"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
CELLSPACING="0"
CELLPADDING="4"
CLASS="CALSTABLE"
>&#13;






    </TABLE
>
</DIV
>

- From the fragment of HTML generated, you can see that none of the cell 
content has been included. Likewise for docbook2pdf -- no table content, just 
a table title. I must be missing something obviously wrong.

BTW, I also embedded the above in a set/book/chapter... same thing happens.

How do I get tables to render then?

Thanks,

Matthew
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