Bug#867664: pandoc: Include doctype header in generated docbook output?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: pandoc
Version: 1.12.4.2~dfsg-1

The DocBook output generated by pandoc is missing the XML header
documenting the format.  Is there a reason for this?

Instead of getting this result,

% printf "header\n===\n\nbody\n"|pandoc -o - -t docbook -
<sect1 id="header">
  <title>header</title>
  <para>
    body
  </para>
</sect1>
%

I suggest to return something like this:

% printf "header\n===\n\nbody\n"|pandoc -o - -t docbook -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<sect1 id="header">
  <title>header</title>
  <para>
    body
  </para>
</sect1>
%

This allow XML validators to check the content.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen