Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Stylesheets can't find bibliography collection

Yes, that's a bug.  I just changed all the instances of
document($bibliography.collection) to
document($bibliography.collection,.) so the
processor will look in the document's  directory.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Hunt" <>
To: "Bob Stayton" <>; <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:21 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: Stylesheets can't find bibliography collection


> Hi Bob,
>
> All my other catalog stuff works fine, so I don't think it is that.
>
> In any case, I only tried to reference the bibliography collection
> through a catalog entry when it would work with a direct file
> reference, e.g. :
>
> <xsl:param
> name="bibliography.collection">biblio_database.xml</xsl:param>
>
> After a bit more experimenting, I find that the stylesheets are always
> using the value of the bibliography parameter relative to the folder
> the stylesheet is in. Thus with the above parameter value, I need to
> put the file in the HTML folder of the stylesheets (for HTML build).
>
> This is true irrespective of whether the path given is relative (as
> above) or absolute, as in:
>
> <xsl:param
> name="bibliography.collection">/Users/nhunt/Documents/PhD_stuff/html/
> xml/bibliography/biblio_database.xml</xsl:param>
>
>
> Another datum: if I override the bibliography template in my style
> sheet driver, then it looks for the collection file relative to where
> my driver file is.
>
> I presume that the correct behaviour would be for the stylesheet to
> look for the collection file relative to where the docbook document
> being processed is. Do other people see this?
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nick.
>
>
> On 30 Dec 2003, at 5:08 pm, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
> > Using a catalog to resolve a bibliography collection is
> > known to work with xsltproc 1.1.1 (I don't have
> > 1.1.0 anymore).
> >
> > Most likely
> > this is a catalog resolution problem.  Do other catalog
> > entries work?  Have you turned on catalog debugging
> > by setting XML_DEBUG_CATALOG=1 environment
> > variable?  Does it report a match?  What do your
> > catalog entries look like?
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > 
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nick Hunt" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 7:41 AM
> > Subject: [docbook-apps] Stylesheets can't find bibliography collection
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to use the bibliography collection mechanism in the XSL
> >> stylesheets. I get errors of the form:
> >>
> >> warning: failed to load external entity
> >> "http://www.dummy.org/biblio_database.xml"
> >> No bibliography entry: AustinHowToDoThingsWithWords found in
> >> http://www.dummy.org/biblio_database.xml
> >>
> >> My stylesheet contains:
> >>
> >> <xsl:param
> >> name="bibliography.collection">http://www.dummy.org/
> >> biblio_database.xml</xsl:param>
> >>
> >> And my catalogue resolves http://www.dummy.org/biblio_database.xml to
> >> the local file biblio_database.xml which contains the bibliography.
> >>
> >> I have tried using absolute and relative paths, as well as the URL
> >> shown above, in the bibliography.collection parameter, with the same
> >> result.
> >>
> >> I am using XSL stylesheets 1.64.1 (HTML), xsltproc 1.1.0.
> >>
> >>
> >> Any thoughts, anyone?
> >>
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> Nick.
> >>
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> >> 
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