Bug#370615: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#370615: Fails to process aptitude documentation with "missing \endgroup"

[Andreas Hoenen]

From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows at debian.org>
Subject: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#370615: Fails to process aptitude documentation with "missing \endgroup"
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:10:35 -0700

> Package: db2latex-xsl
> Version: 0.8pre1-6.1
> Severity: normal
>
>   As an experiment, I decided to run the aptitude documentation through
> db2latex.  The resulting LaTeX file died with this error:
>

Hello,

it seems that the aptitude documentation is not a valid DocBook
document.  Maybe this is related to the conversion problems.

-------- snip --------
ah at ender:/tmp/aptitude-0.4.1/doc/en$ xmllint --noout --valid aptitude.xml
manpage.xml:457: element link: validity error : Element arg is not declared in link list of possible children
        choice='plain'>-F</arg></link> option, the output of
                                      ^
manpage.xml:874: element literal: validity error : Element arg is not declared in literal list of possible children
<term><literal>-q<arg choice='opt'>=<replaceable>n</replaceable></arg></literal>
                                                                               ^
manpage.xml:874: element literal: validity error : Element arg is not declared in literal list of possible children
 <literal>--quiet<arg choice='opt'>=<replaceable>n</replaceable></arg></literal>
                                                                               ^
manpage.xml:1100: element refsect1: validity error : Element refsect1 content does not follow the DTD, expecting (refsect1info? , (title , subtitle? , titleabbrev?) , (((calloutlist | glosslist | itemizedlist | orderedlist | segmentedlist | simplelist | variablelist | caution | important | note | tip | warning | literallayout | programlisting | programlistingco | screen | screenco | screenshot | synopsis | cmdsynopsis | funcsynopsis | classsynopsis | fieldsynopsis | constructorsynopsis | destructorsynopsis | methodsynopsis | formalpara | para | simpara | address | blockquote | graphic | graphicco | mediaobject | mediaobjectco | informalequation | informalexample | informalfigure | informaltable | equation | example | figure | table | msgset | procedure | sidebar | qandaset | anchor | bridgehead | remark | highlights | abstract | authorblurb | epigraph | indexterm | beginpage)+ , refsect2*) | refsect2+)), got (title varlistentry varlistentry varlistentry varlistentry )
  </refsect1>
             ^
-------- snip --------

Regards, Andreas Hoenen
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Andreas Hoenen <andreas.hoenen at arcor.de>

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