Re: docbook2pdf errors

[Markus Hoenicka <markus dot hoenicka at mhoenicka dot de>]

Frank Fesevur was heard to say:
> 2013/4/12 Markus Hoenicka:
> > I have never used the docbook2pdf tool, but these messages indicate 
> > that it
> > attempts to transform an XML document using Jade and the DocBook 
> > DSSSL
> > stylesheets. While you may be able to get this to work with a little 
> > effort,
> > I'd recommend to use an XSLT-based toolchain (e.g. xslt and fop) and 
> > the
> > DocBook XSL stylesheets for XML documents.
>
> I am a docbook newbie so I just wanted to try docbook2pdf to see what
> the generated pdf looks like.

You should understand that the entity stuff that you bumped into was a 
necessity of SGML documents in the days of yore as there was no such 
thing as UTF-8. XML documents can use the non-ASCII characters directly 
instead of using character entities if they use UTF-8. This is usually 
declared in the header like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

In order to set up your XML toolchain, please peruse the excellent 
instructions here:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/

regards,
Markus

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