Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing id ?!?

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

> From: camille <camille@mandrakesoft.com>
> 
> I'm running through a strange behavior, on something so simple that I
> hesitated a lot before posting:
>  
> SAXON 6.4.3
> docbook-style-xsl-1.45
> 
> Thanks for your help, Camille.
> 
> ------ shell interaction --------------
> $ java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet  -o test.html test.xml \
> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/docbook.xsl
> Error: no ID for constraint linkend: cvs.
> XRef to nonexistent id: cvs
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> --------- test.xml -----------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
> 
> <article lang="en">
>   <title>MandrakeSoft</title>
>   <sect1 id="cvs">
>     <title>Introduction</title>
> 
>     <para>First</para>
>       
>   </sect1>
> 
>   <sect1>
>     <title>Directions</title>
> 
>       <para> Then read <xref linkend="cvs"/>.</para>
>   </sect1>
> 
> </article>
> --------------------------------

I usually get that error reported when the processor cannot
find the DTD.  Without the DTD, it doesn't know which
attributes are of type ID and IDREF, so the XSLT id()
lookup function doesn't work.

Normally the processor should also report that it can't
find the DTD entity as well.

bobs
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