Re: [docbook-apps] Mapping http://docbook.sourceforge.net identifier (catalogs)

[Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>]

At 00:22 01/07/2003 +0200, Marc Baaden wrote:


>{?Could not retrieve image from 
>'http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/images/draft.png': 
>java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No route to host}
>
>when trying to render a docbook document translated to fo with XEP. (this is
>due to the fact that we are now firewalled and use a proxy). But more
>importantly, I would like to avoid fetching things like that, as they are
>locally installed in my case (eg
>/usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/images/draft.png).
>
>I thought this would be taken care of by catalog files, but I couldn't find
>any mapping of docbook.sourceforge.net to local files. Is there a reason ?
>
>(NB: I am using Debian, and until now most things were automagically
>catalogued correctly).
>
>Should I add something directly to /etc/catalogs, or how else to properly
>setup these things ?

Yes, add it to the catalog, so it is resolved at xslt time, not at xep time.



>(NB: I have compiled the little java extension from
>http://xep.xattic.com/lists/xep-support/0680.html to make catalogs available
>to XEP, so that should not be a problem).

Have you offered this to David Tolpin at RenderX?
   I guess it might be appreciated?

regards DaveP