DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie troubles with Docbook/XML + XHTML

[John Levon <levon at movementarian dot org>]

moz xhtml 286 xsltproc --version
Using libxml 20413, libxslt 10010 and libexslt 703

xsl-stylesheets-1.48-3 installed at /usr/share/sgml/docbook

xsltproc http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl in.xml

I get a couple of problems :

1) <dt xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> All tags have xmlns
   specified. validator.w3.org does not like this at all. Where does this
   come from and how can I fix it ?

2) using chunk.xsl instead of docbook.xsl, I don't get doctype
   declarations in the XHTML files. How can I fix it ?

3) using chunk.xsl, the file names are not very readable. This seems to
be because the chunk.xsl at docbook.sf.net does not specify this option :

<xsl:param name="use.id.as.filename" select="1"/> 

Is there any reason this is not on by default ?

I do not know XSLT at all, and would like to avoid using
hand-crafted .xsl files I would have to maintain (but it will do
as a solution). Ideally the released files at docbook.sf.net would
not have any of the three problems above (I am sure I am missing some
good reason why these problems exist for me).

As it is, the machine-generated pages are the only part of my
website which don't validate ...  can somebody help ?

thanks
john

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