[xep-support] Re: line 1: Incorrect top element - should be 'root'

Stephen Taylor stephen at kx.com
Mon Apr 30 13:06:29 PDT 2018


Sadly, same result.

Stephen



Stephen Taylor | Librarian | *Kx* | +44 7713 400852 | stephen at kx.com

On 30 April 2018 at 19:40, Ron Catterall <ron at catterall.net> wrote:

> try:
>   xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.1"  (not 5.0)
>
> is this a name space confusion ?
>
>    docbook-xsl-1.79.2 gets the name space version.
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 04/30/2018 01:29 PM, Stephen Taylor wrote:
>
> I'm rendering a PDF from DocBook 5 XML generated by Pandoc from Markdown
> source.
>
> The Pandoc output begins:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE article>
> <article
>   xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0"
>   xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" >
>
> XEP aborts with a validation error on the XML, complaining
>
> line 1: Incorrect top element - should be 'root'
>
> There is an easy workaround: remove the line:
>
>   xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0"
>
> Looks to me like Pandoc has the right way to declare the namespace; seems
> strange XEP should choke on it. Is there a better way to correct the
> problem?
>
>
>
> Stephen Taylor | Librarian | *Kx* | +44 7713 400852 | stephen at kx.com
>
>
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