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Documentation Breakage at 2.5.6

From
Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date
Dec 6, 2017, 04:12 UTC
Message-ID
<008d01d36e48$747cc130$5d764390$@nexbridge.com>
Hi All,

I'm trying to upgrade the NonStop port from 2.3.7 upward eventually to 2.15.1 and hit a snag on documentation. The xmlto component is a bit new to me and I hit the following error:

    XMLTO git-remote-testgit.1
xmlto: /home/git/git/Documentation/git-remote-testgit.xml does not validate
(status 3)
xmlto: Fix document syntax or use --skip-validation option
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd
/home/git/git/Documentation/git-remote-testgit.xml:2: warning: failed to
load external entity
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"
D DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"
 
^
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd
warning: failed to load external entity
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"
validity error : Could not load the external subset
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd

The -skip-validation option just takes me to a different problem validating via sourceforge URL that appears not to exist anymore, although I had to modify ./git/Documention/Makefile, which is vexing.

    XMLTO git-remote-testgit.1
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
warning: failed to load external entity
"http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
compilation error: file /tmp/xmlto-xsl.ie6J8p line 4 element import
xsl:import : unable to load
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
Makefile:328: recipe for target 'git-remote-testgit.1' failed

Any advice on getting past this? It would be nice to get git help to working again. An answer of "you need to get past 2.5.6" is ok too as long as I know where I'm going.

Thanks, Randall

-- Brief whoami: NonStop&UNIX developer since approximately UNIX(421664400)/NonStop(211288444200000000) -- In my real life, I talk too much.

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