Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XML catalog question and comment

[Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:48:27PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> > Then I point the XSL processor to the catalog location.
> > The catalog can resolve pathnames relative to
> > the catalog file location.
> > The command in the Makefile looks like this:
> > 
> > XML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/share/xml/catalog/catalog.xml \
> >   xsltproc  /tools/xsl/docbook/html/chunk.xsl  input.xml
> 
> 
> xsltproc has it's own implementation?

  well it reuses the one from libxml2 . The xmlcatalog tool
comes with libxml2 too.

> > BTW, if you are using xsltproc, you'll want
> > to initially set the env variable XML_DEBUG_CATALOG=1 so you can
> > see how each reference is being resolved.  Very helpful
> > for debugging unresolved references.
> 
> 
> You obviously have a great system here. I never thought of using the 
> resolver to resolve URIs passed to the processor.

   yes that's very convenient, for example you can generalize the
use of the stylesheet PI, make it point to the canonical URI for
the XSLT and the catalog will be looked up automatically.

Daniel

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