[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#568894: xmlto: Issues

[Daniel Leidert]

tags 568894 + upstream confirmed
forwarded 568894 ovasik at redhat.com
thanks

Hello Ondrej,

I would like to discuss two bugs/issues in xmlto with you.

(1) xmlto sets both fop.extensions and fop1.extensions. This is not how
things should work. You either have to set fop.extensions (for fop
0.20.5 or earlier) *or* fop1.extensions (for fop >= 0.90), not both
together. I'm sure, this might cause build issues. What about handling
this during configure time: check fop's version output and just set one
parameter in xmlto?

(2) Te current way of creating temporary stylesheets in /tmp creates a
problem, which is described e.g. here: http://bugs.debian.org/568894.
The problem is, that the .fo file is in a different directory than the
source and thus the second step, running fop, won't find the image. A
possible fix might be to set img.src.path to be the path of the working
directory. E.g.

XSLTPARAMS="$XSLTPARAMS --stringparam img.src.path `pwd`/"

But this might create problems for images declared with an absolute
path! IMO the only way of fixing this is to create the .fo file inside
the source directory. Maybe as .xmlto.fo.XXXXXX or similar? What do you
think?

Regards, Daniel