Re: user-manual.html invalid HTML

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:04:02AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

quoted

The versions I build locally have:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

in each HTML file, which is added by asciidoc.  Maybe the package you
are looking at was built with an older version of asciidoc that doesn't
do this (I don't actually know the history of this feature, but it seems
to me that this is something asciidoc should be doing, not git).

It looks like the HTML for user-manual.html (unlike the reference
manual and other articles) is not generated by asciidoc after all;
instead, the rule in Documentation/Makefile uses xsltproc directly to
convert the asciidoc-generated XML to HTML.

Thanks for tracking this down.

Apparently the caller is supposed to set the
chunker.output.doctype-public parameter.
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Chunking.html#OutputDoctype

Your patch works fine for me, though I am using the exact same toolchain
as you. I have no idea if older docbook's will work less well.

My asciidoc-generated pages are xhtml. We are using "html/docbook.xsl"
from docbook, and now "xhtml", so probably some form of html is right.
But is html4 strict right? With nothing else to go on, it seems a good
guess to me, but I'm wondering if you actually found the answer
somewhere.

Also, while testing your patch, I found and fixed the following buglet:

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] docs: fix Makefile dependency for user manual

We use our custom xsl file to build the user manual, so make
sure we depend on it. We don't use it anywhere else, so we
can stick it straight in the rule.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
---
 Documentation/Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index a4c4063..e117bc4 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile

@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ $(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index): %.html : %.txt
 XSLT = docbook.xsl
 XSLTOPTS = --xinclude --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css
 
-user-manual.html: user-manual.xml
+user-manual.html: user-manual.xml $(XSLT)
 	$(QUIET_XSLTPROC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
 	xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@+ $(XSLT) $< && \
 	mv $@+ $@

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