[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#261409: libxslt1.1: HTML output method fails with AxKit

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

Package: libxslt1.1
Version: 1.1.8-2
Severity: important

I have just tried an upgrade on some of my boxes, first I tried a
backport, now the libxslt1.1 in unstable on my otherwise Sarge
system development system. The result is the same on all my systems:

I'm developing an application using AxKit, which uses a pipeline of
XSLTransformations. The transformations use XML::LibXSLT, currently in
version 1.57, which in turn uses libxslt to do the hard work. 

Both AxKit and the XML::-perl modules are installed on my system from
CPAN rather than Debian packages. 

The last stylesheet in the pipeline has the following element:
  <xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-8"
    media-type="text/html" indent="yes"/>

This should make sure the output is HTML, if I have understood it
correctly. With 1.1.7 it does, with 1.1.8 it doesn't. When reverting
back to 1.1.7, it works again... 

That's why I'm assuming it has something to do with the recent
package... :-) By "doesn't work", I can't say much
beyond that HTML is not returned, that is the output method
declaration has no effect. I can't see any relevant error messages in
my Apache error logs, in spite of having the log level to max.

I have set the severity to important. Please do not hesitate to change
it if that's inappropriate. To me, this is a real show-stopper, but of
course, it could be something that only appears with my combination of
software. I have asked on the axkit-users mailing list if anybody else
has seen this problem, but none have so far reported anything. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-ruby.2004-07-25.owl.1.oss
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages libxslt1.1 depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared 
libraries an
ii  libxml2                     2.6.11-2     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1.1-3  compression library - 
runtime

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