[PATCH xorg-docs 2/2] Replace XMLTO with XSLTPROC, XMLLINT and W3M tools

[Matt Dew]

On 03/22/2011 06:14 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Matt Dew<marcoz at osource.org>  wrote:
>> On 03/22/2011 03:25 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Gaetan Nadon<memsize at videotron.ca>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Xmlto is a script that selects the appropriate back-end
>>>> based on options and tools availability.
>>>>
>>>> Xmlto uses an xsl "fragment" which is not compatible with
>>>> the standard use of xsl stylesheets. The customization for
>>>> xhtml and fo cannot be used with xsltproc in that context.
>>>> It makes adoption of docbook features like olink and profiling
>>>> significantly more difficult.
>>>
>>> If you pass -x to xmlto instead of -m, you can use a full stylesheet
>>> instead of a fragment. Moving to xsltproc means you have to duplicate
>>> the internal smarts of xmlto.
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, with the '-x' xmlto will look for that stylesheet on the
>> local machine,  so there's no way to use the http://... stylesheets. and we
>> want to use those for portability.  The local catalogs detect if there are
>> local copies and uses them if they exist.
>
> More importantly, xmlto always uses --nonet for xsltproc and xmllint.
> Do you really want builds to hang trying to fetch sheets over the
> network? You guys are the ones doing the doc work, so I won't try to
> slow you down anymore. Please put the correct justification in the
> commit messages, though.

Dan,  which justifications do you feel are incorrect?  Agreed that 
accurate commit msgs are important so we'll try to clear them up.
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