Hi Brad, I'm leaving all of the text of your email here as it looks like you forgot to post to the list; my comments follow. On 22/08/2007, at 12:47, Brad Miller wrote:

Thanks for your help:

Here's what I get when I run xmlto -vvv

xmlto -vvv pdf article.xml ~/tmp Format script: /opt/local/share/xmlto/format/docbook/pdf Convert to XSL-FO xmllint >/dev/null --xinclude --postvalid /Users/bmiller/tmp/ article.xml Stylesheet: http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/ docbook.xsl xsltproc --nonet --xinclude -v \ -o /tmp/xmlto.cHziSS/article.proc \ http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/docbook.xsl \ /Users/bmiller/tmp/article.xml I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http:// docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/docbook.xsl warning: failed to load external entity "http:// docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/docbook.xsl" cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/ docbook.xsl No XML Catalogs? Trying again with --catalogs.. Variable $SGML_CATALOG_FILES not set I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http:// docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/docbook.xsl warning: failed to load external entity " http:// docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/docbook.xsl" cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/ docbook.xsl

As far as I know I got whatever docbook stuff I need from macports. Here is the contents of the catalog:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/ catalog.dtd ">

<!-- Created by XML Catalog Manager 2.2 --> <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> <nextCatalog catalog="/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.2/catalog.xml" /> <nextCatalog catalog="/opt/local/share/xsl/docbook-xsl/catalog.xml" /> <nextCatalog catalog="/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ catalog.xml" /> <nextCatalog catalog="/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.3/catalog.xml" /> <nextCatalog catalog="/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.4/catalog.xml" /> <nextCatalog catalog="/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.5/catalog.xml" /> </catalog>

I do remember seeing some funny messages about uninstallation and catalog management when tried to upgrade to the latest xmlto stuff, but since I was not uninstalling I didn't do anything.

Here is all the docbook stuff that I have installed through port:

port installed |grep docbook

docbook-xml @4.3_0 docbook-xml @4.5_0 (active) docbook-xml-4.1.2 @4.1.2_1 (active) docbook-xml-4.2 @4.2_0 (active) docbook-xml-4.3 @4.3_0 (active) docbook-xml-4.4 @4.4_0 (active) docbook-xml-4.5 @4.5_0 (active) docbook-xsl @1.69.1_0 docbook-xsl @1.72.0_0 (active)

Finally, here is what I get when I tried your a2x suggestion: a2x --format=pdf article.txt ~/tmp readlink: illegal option -- f usage: readlink [-n] [file ...] a2x: failed: enhanced getopt(1) required

Brad

It now looks to me like your libxml2 and asciidoc installations are out of date. I added sysutils/getopt as a runtime dependency of asciidoc when I bumped it to 8.2.1 on 2007/05/28, while libxml2 was patched on 2007/06/11 so that it would locate our default location for XML catalogs. If you upgrade libxml2, asciidoc and libxslt (I'm pretty sure that the latter needs a rebuild to pick up the rebuild to libxml2), ensuring that any missing dependencies are also installed, I'm fairly confident that both problems should be solved. Good luck! Kind regards, Maun Suang -- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms at macports dot org