[xep-support] Re: Xep-support Digest, Vol 86, Issue 1

Tue May 1 14:14:21 PDT 2018

Sorry I did not make myself more clear.

x4u renders my XML and XSL as a PDF – 70 pages of beautiful typography –
*provided* I remove the xmlns attribute from the XML root element, which
is, as you note, article.

The xmlns attribute was written by Pandoc <http://pandoc.org> as DocBook 5
<http://docbook.org> XML output. It looks correct to me. DocBook is an XML
application that will be familiar to many XEP users. So I‘m wondering why
x4u would report the attribute as a validation error in the XML.

My question stands: is there a better solution to this than removing the
attribute?

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

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> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:06:29 +0100
> From: Stephen Taylor <stephen at kx.com>
> To: Ron Catterall <ron at catterall.net>
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> Subject: [xep-support] Re: line 1: Incorrect top element - should be
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> Sadly, same result.
>
> Stephen
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> Stephen Taylor | Librarian | *Kx* | +44 7713 400852 | stephen at kx.com
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> 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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> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:26:31 -0700
> From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin at renderx.com>
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> Subject: [xep-support] Re: line 1: Incorrect top element - should be
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> RenderX does not format pure XML. Nothing does unless you just want to
> print out the tags.
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> You are sending to it an XML that starts with <article>.
>
> So the error message is correct, what you send to RenderX should start
> with <fo:root> or at the very least, it should have an XSL stylesheet
> reference that turns your <article> into an XSL FO document that starts
> with <fo:root> (like the Docbook XSL stylesheets would).
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> You need to convert your XML to XSL FO or add an XSL stylesheet reference
> for RenderX to understand what XSL you are using to process your document.
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> Subject: [xep-support] Re: line 1: Incorrect top element - should be 'root'
>
>
>
> Sadly, same result.
>
>
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Stephen Taylor | Librarian | Kx | +44 7713 400852 | stephen at kx.com
> <mailto:stephen at kx.com>
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>
> On 30 April 2018 at 19:40, Ron Catterall <ron at catterall.net <mailto:
> 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
> <mailto:stephen at kx.com>
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