Re: The docbook.sourceforge.net site appears to be down

On 2017-09-26 17:11, twheeler was heard to say:
> I'm using docbook-slides, whose stylesheets import a docbook.xsl file 
> on the
> docbook.sourceforge.net site. I noticed this morning that I can't build
> slides, and it seems that's because the docbook.sourceforge.net site is
> down.
> 
> If this is a known issue, is there an ETA on when it might be available
> again? My recollection of Sourceforge is that 
> <projectname>.sourceforge.net
> sites aren't hosted or managed by SourceForge, but just use a record in
> SourceForge's DNS to point to a site managed by the project 
> maintainers. DNS
> seems to resolve correctly, but I get "connection reset by peer" errors 
> when
> trying to connect to the website there (consistently, from multiple 
> networks
> in the US). If there's a better place than here to report this outage,
> please let me know.
> 
> Unfortunately, the cdn.docbook.org site doesn't seem to have the same
> version of the docbook.xsl file (referenced by the stylesheets) as the 
> one
> on docbook.sourceforge.net, so it doesn't seem like a simple workaround 
> is
> likely for me.

Hi,

if you have installed the DocBook stylesheets locally, you should be 
able to use a local copy of docbook.xsl by fiddling with your XML 
catalog. See chapter 5 of Bob Stayton's manual:

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

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
http://www.mhoenicka.de
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