<div dir="ltr">Sadly, same result. <div><br></div><div>Stephen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Stephen Taylor | Librarian | <b><font color="#3d85c6">Kx</font></b> | +44 7713 400852 | <a href="mailto:stephen@kx.com" target="_blank">stephen@kx.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 April 2018 at 19:40, Ron Catterall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron@catterall.net" target="_blank">ron@catterall.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>try:</p>
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        version="5.1"  (not 5.0)<br>
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        is this a name space confusion ?<br>
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      <p>   docbook-xsl-1.79.2 gets the name space version.</p>
      <p>Ron<br>
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    <div class="m_-2856545845233817072moz-cite-prefix">On 04/30/2018 01:29 PM, Stephen Taylor
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      <div dir="ltr">I'm rendering a PDF from DocBook 5 XML generated by
        Pandoc from Markdown source. 
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        <div>The Pandoc output begins:</div>
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            <div><font face="monospace, monospace"><?xml
                version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?></font></div>
            <div><font face="monospace, monospace"><!DOCTYPE
                article></font></div>
            <div><font face="monospace, monospace"><article</font></div>
            <div><font face="monospace, monospace">  xmlns="<a href="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" target="_blank">http://docbook.org/ns/<wbr>docbook</a>"
                version="5.0"</font></div>
            <div><font face="monospace, monospace">  xmlns:xlink="<a href="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" target="_blank">http://www.w3.<wbr>org/1999/xlink</a>"
                ></font></div>
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          <div>XEP aborts with a validation error on the XML,
            complaining </div>
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          <div><font face="monospace, monospace">line 1: Incorrect top
              element - should be 'root'<br>
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          <div>There is an easy workaround: remove the line:</div>
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            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?</div>
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                        <div><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">Stephen
                            Taylor | Librarian | <b><font color="#3d85c6">Kx</font></b> | +44 7713
                            400852 | <a href="mailto:stephen@kx.com" target="_blank">stephen@kx.com</a></font></div>
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