Re: About the version 0.8.3 in CVS, bugs in docbook2X, etc.

On June 27, 2003 06:33 pm, I wrote:

> But there seems to be some bug in Cygwin (using the SAX2 and the
> XML::SAX::PurePerl parser) that makes docbook2X hang when creating man
> pages out of its own documentation, and produce incorrect output on some
> other man pages I tried. There is also whitespace issues with the Texinfo
> output, but that seems to me a docbook2X bug that just isn't triggered on
> Unix / Expat.

There seems to be two bugs.  The Texinfo whitespace bug appears when using 
XML::SAX::PurePerl, and I already know the cause, so I can fix that soon.
(It doesn't have anything to do with the operating system, or Perl version.)

The other bug is quite devastating: it seems that db2x_manxml and db2x_texixml 
internal data structures are messed up(!) when using Cygwin Perl.  The output 
is totolly wrong.  (This may be related to that Cygwin Perl (5.8) 
hanging-and-gradually-chomping-up-my-system-RAM bug that I also encountered.)
Doesn't happen with ActivePerl (Perl 5.6), nor Linux (Perl 5.8)

It would have been nice if we had a testing framework that diffs output and 
catch these errors...

-- 
Steve Cheng 
鄭君博



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