[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#1101840: “LinuxdocTools::process_file: Cannot find favourites.gpx. Aborting” -- also, docs are wrong

[Manny]

* Agustin Martin 'agmartin at debian.org' via 33Mail <sender at mailer1.33mail.com> [2025-04-03 09:17]:
> 
> If the same happens to you, I am afraid linuxdoc-tools is not the program
> you expect, but your remarks are valid anyway. Please let me know if the
> same happens to your .gpx file after linking as favourites.sgml. By the
> way, sgmltools is no longer available in Debian.

Thanks for the feedback. Indeed I get the same output as you after
symlinking to a file with an sgml extension.

For context, I wanted to edit the favourites.gpx file used by
OSMand. But I heard OSMand is quite fussy about spec
compliance. E.g. bad things would happen if I add a description to a
favourite (a point of interest) which literally contains an ampersand
(“&”), which should be written as “&” My edits caused OSMand to
behave poorly. So I was hoping linuxdoc-tools could help me find
characters that I need to encode for sgml compliance.

Anyway, that’s not your problem but I wanted to give some context on
what led me to use linuxdoc-tools on a GPX file. Glad my bug report
was useful nonetheless.