Bug#552008: yelp: [l10n] translated valid XML files give parsing errors

[Neil Williams]

Package: yelp
Version: 2.28.0+webkit-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

xmllint is happy with the original, untranslated, XML file and yelp displays it correctly.

Once translated, the translated XML file is also valid according to xmllint
but yelp complains of errors.

yelp then omits the rest of the page which makes the problem worse.

This page contains the following errors:
error on line 411 at column 3340: PCDATA invalid Char value 22
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

The XML file is not 400 lines long, this must be the internally
generated meta content within yelp, yet there are no XML errors with
the generated XML content.

I'm finding the same problems with multiple applications - this error came from
gpdftext (a new package due to be uploaded to Debian once the remaining translations
are available) but errors also occur in drivel (for the cs translation):

This page contains the following errors:
error on line 481 at column 19: expected '>'
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

$ LANGUAGE=cs yelp ghelp:drivel

(This error occurs on the first page, the page with the legal notice.)

This page contains the following errors:
error on line 415 at column 19: Specification mandate value for attribute an
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

This error occurs on the "Usage" page (section 3).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages yelp depends on:
ii  docbook-xml            4.5-7             standard XML documentation system 
ii  gconf2                 2.28.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-doc-utils        0.18.0-1          a collection of documentation util
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.5-3           high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                  2.10.1-1          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-2            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.22.2-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.18.3-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  librarian0             0.8.1-4           Documentation meta-data library (l
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.1-1         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.10-1            library for program launch feedbac
ii  libwebkit-1.0-2        1.1.15.2-1        Web content engine library for Gtk
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.2-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.7.6.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1             1.1.26-1          XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  man-db                 2.5.6-3           on-line manual pager
ii  xml-core               0.12              XML infrastructure and XML catalog
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages yelp recommends:
ii  gnome-user-guide              2.28.0-1   GNOME user's guide
ii  ttf-dejavu                    2.30-1     Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-

yelp suggests no packages.

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