Re: docbook-xsl URL mess

Yes, this needs to be fixed.  I'm cleaning up pull requests and issues 
and will be making a new release soon.  Could you please file an issue  
on the DocBook XSL github with your recommended fix:

https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/

Bob Stayton
[email protected]

On 6/8/2020 12:02 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> In docbook-xsl 1.79.2, the system identifier was changed from
>
>     http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/...
>
> to
>
>     http://cdn.docbook.org/release/xsl/current/...
>
> However, this was done in a backward-incompatible way.  So now, in 
> your customization layer or build system, you have to pick one of 
> these URLs, and users who have a different docbook-xsl version 
> installed locally will suffer, either because the stylesheets have to 
> be fetched from a remote server, or the build will fail entirely.
>
> This didn't use to be a real problem in practice because 1.79.2 saw 
> very little adoption, but it's now trickling into various 
> distributions and packagings, and it's becoming a real source of 
> frequent build problems.
>
> This should be fixed by making the supplied catalog files include 
> backward-compatible mappings.  However, it seems after 1.79.2, 
> docbook-xsl went unmaintained, so we are now stuck in this limbo.
>
> Is anybody in a position to get this fixed and get a new patch release 
> out soon please?
>
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