[Python-modules-team] Bug#611233: rst2xml can not create valid DocBook XML-code for Publican

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, +07:21:03 EET (UTC +0200),
Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> pressed some keys:

> * Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv at iki.fi>, 2011-01-27, 04:13:
> >Please check out files in this WWW-directory:
> >
> >http://iki.fi/juhtolv/tmp/bugreports/python-docutils/01/harjoitukset/
> >
> >When I run that script called compileall.sh almost everything
> >works like a charm. Even Tidy thinks XML-code that rst2xml created
> >is valid.  But when Publican tries to validate (let alone convert)
> >that XML-code, it gives umpteen gazillion errors. They all can be
> >seen in that file publican_errors.txt .
> 
> Thanks for your bug report. I'm afraid that errors you are seeing
> are expected: rst2xml doesn't produce DocBook XML documents (and it
> was never intended to do so!), which is the format Publican expects.

Yes, I was wrong. Just few hours after sending my bug report I
remembered that pandoc and started to use it. Unfortunately it has
some nasty bugs that hit me very badly, at least #611328 and #610583 .


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