#316136 import of XSL by catalog broken

Package:
docbook-slides
Source:
docbook-slides
Submitter:
"W. Borgert"
Date:
2025-06-26 07:13:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#316136#5
Date:
2005-06-28 19:05:22 UTC
From:
To:
In a very simple customisation layer, the include by fixed path
works:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:import
href="/usr/share/xml/docbook/custom/slides/3.3.1/xsl/xhtml/tables.xsl"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Including by XML catalog does not:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:import
href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/3.3.1/xsl/xhtml/tables.xsl"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Gives xsl:import unable to load with xsltproc on a sarge/stable
system.  I tried different variants of the path, but failed with
any.  Maybe sth. is wrong with the catalog?
#316136#10
Date:
2012-10-02 13:38:16 UTC
From:
To:
tags 316136 moreinfo
thanks

This is a difficult question to answer. According to:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/

There is no such things as DTD for 3.3.1, only 3.3.0 is available...
So I am not sure what the proper behavior should be.

Comments ?
#316136#15
Date:
2012-10-02 13:38:16 UTC
From:
To:
tags 316136 moreinfo
thanks

This is a difficult question to answer. According to:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/

There is no such things as DTD for 3.3.1, only 3.3.0 is available...
So I am not sure what the proper behavior should be.

Comments ?
#316136#20
Date:
2025-06-26 07:11:19 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Wolfgang,

docbook-slides came up as a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1] today.
At first thanks a lot for your effort to file detailes bug reports
against this package.  However, I'm not really sure how to proceed from
here.  On one hand I have no idea where to add this documention where
you provided the needed content for (thank you for this).  On the other
hand I'm not really sure whether we need this package in Debian any
more.

If the answer is yes (@Mathieu) I'd happily volunteer to migrate the old
SVN repository to the Salsa team space of the XML-SGML team.  I simply
want to make sure that this time is well spent and the package is really
helpful for our users.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks#bug-of-the-day
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/xml-sgml-team/