Re: Issues building docs on an offline box again.

Excerpts from Miklos Vajna's message of Tue Feb 24 09:07:47 -0500 2009:

I'm not a docbook expert, either - but It seems the url your config
rewrites is http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2, while the url you
try to access during the build is
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current. So I *think* you
need to add two other entries as well for the xsl urls, but I'm just
guessing.

I'm no expert either, but I just became more familiar after packaging
it for OpenCSW (just to build the git docs!).  It's likely that your
docbook dtds are fine but the xsl stylesheets are either missing or
broken.

Try looking at the docbook stylesheets (xsl in particular) packages in
your cygwin setup.  There should be lines like:

<rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl
/current" rewritePrefix="file:///usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.69.1-5
.1"/>
<rewriteURI uriStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current "rewritePrefix="file:///usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.69.1-5.1"/>

to handle the remapping you require.  This was from the
/etc/xml/catalog file on rhel5, but it should be _similar_ on a cygwin
setup (my cygwin boxes aren't outfitted with the docbook toolchain so
I can't verify for you).

HTH.
-Ben
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