[publican-list] 1.99: translation(?) to SA drops </ulink> end tag

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Jeff Fearn wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 06:08 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > ok, i'm not sure what the deal is here.  here's the original XML
> > file datadir/Common_Content/common/en-US/Conventions.xml:
> >
> > ... In PDF and paper editions, this manual uses typefaces drawn from
> > the <ulink url="https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/">Liberation
> > Fonts</ulink> set. ...
> >
> >   and here's the cause of a ./Build error in file
> > datadir/Common_Content/common/tmp/ar-SA/xml_tmp/Conventions.xml:
> >
> > ... In PDF and paper editions, this manual uses typefaces drawn from
> > the <ulink url="https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/">Liberation
> > Fonts set. ...
> >
> >   is there a reason that </ulink> end tag has disappeared?
>
> There are a couple of patches required to upstream modules:
> https://fedorahosted.org/publican/#Patchesforrequiredpackages
>
> This sounds like the HTML::TreeBuilder bug.

  hmmmmm ... speaking from a position of massive ignorance, i'm not
quite convinced.  the diagnostic specifically identifies the error
with:

  at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187

so wouldn't that represent XML parsing, not HTML?  but there's
something else i just noticed.

  unlike with the XML treebuilder package, there doesn't appear to be
a corresponding ubuntu HTML package -- here's the entire list of
"treebuilder" packages that exist:

$ apt-cache search treebuilder
libhtml-scrubber-perl - Perl extension for scrubbing/sanitizing html
libhtml-treebuilder-xpath-perl - Perl module to add XPath support to HTML::TreeBuilder
libwww-mechanize-treebuilder-perl - Perl module integrating WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder
libxml-handler-trees-perl - Perl module for building tree structures using PerlSAX handlers
libxml-treebuilder-perl - XML parser providing XML::Elements DOM similar to HTML::Element
$

  you can see that one for xml, i have that installed.  but there is
no directly corresponding one for HTML.  however, if you notice that
third package in the list, it clearly claims to integrate
HTML::TreeBuilder functionality, and i *don't* have that installed --
nothing in the build process suggested i needed it.

  maybe this is all wildly irrelevant, i'm just pointing out what i'm
seeing -- no actual, specific libhtml-treebuilder-perl package on
ubuntu.

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