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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2017-07-08 12:31:26)
> 
> 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.

It seems Pandoc supports this already.

Perhaps you need to pass this option: --standalone

 - Jonas

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