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

Tue May 1 14:44:21 PDT 2018

In other words:

<article xmlns=”http://docbook.org/ns/docbook”>

Does not match:

<article>

Kevin

From: Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Taylor
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Subject: [xep-support] Re: Xep-support Digest, Vol 86, Issue 1

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 <mailto:stephen at kx.com> 

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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:06:29 +0100
From: Stephen Taylor <stephen at kx.com <mailto:stephen at kx.com> >
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Subject: [xep-support] Re: line 1: Incorrect top element - should be
        'root'
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Sadly, same result.

Stephen

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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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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:26:31 -0700
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Subject: [xep-support] Re: line 1: Incorrect top element - should be
        'root'
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RenderX does not format pure XML. Nothing does unless you just want to print out the tags.

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).

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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From: Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com <mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com> ] On Behalf Of Stephen Taylor
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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>  <mailto:stephen at kx.com <mailto:stephen at kx.com> > 

On 30 April 2018 at 19:40, Ron Catterall <ron at catterall.net <mailto:ron at catterall.net>  <mailto: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>  <mailto:stephen at kx.com <mailto:stephen at kx.com> > 

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