[publican-list] Is it possible to work offline with Publican?

[Joshua Wulf]

Norman, this is handled by the xml catalog on Linux. It's a mapping of remote dtd urls to local file system copies in /etc/catalog.xml.  The system uses the local copy of a dtd whenever possible. 

Google "Windows xml catalog". A quick search from my phone shows some possibility that Windows also supports xml catalogs. 

- Josh

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On 09/06/2011, at 10:50 PM, Norman Dunbar <Norman at dunbar-it.co.uk> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
> 
> apologies if this has been dealt with before, I don't seem to be able to find a "search" option on the archives page for this list. I have also searched the BugZilla system and found nothing relevant there either.
> 
> 
> I have just installed Publican 2.3, to test it, on a Windows XP box which currently, doesn't have an internet connection. When I run a build to create a pdf file, I get the following error:
> 
> Using XML::LibXSLT on d:/Program Files/Publican/xsl/pdf.xsl
> No such file or directoryI/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/footnote.xsl"
> 
> compilation error: file file:///d:/Program%20Files/Publican/xsl/pdf.xsl element include xsl:include : unable to load http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/footnote.xsl
> at Publican/Builder.pm line 889
> 
> However, if I run this when the box does have a connection, it works fine and created the pdf file. Disconnecting the network lead (!) results in the above error again.
> 
> I have checked the DocBook XSL installation (the one bundled with Publican 2.3) and it has a catalog.xml with the following:
> 
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> - <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
> - <!--  XML Catalog file for DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2
>  -->
>  <rewriteURI uriStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/" rewritePrefix="./" />
>  <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/" rewritePrefix="./" />
>  <rewriteURI uriStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.75.2/" rewritePrefix="./" />
>  <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.75.2/" rewritePrefix="./" />
>  </catalog>
> 
> So it looks to me as if it should be finding the footnotes.xsl file locally rather than needing to hit the internet all the time.
> 
> Is there a problem here with my setup? What could I check to ensure that catalog.xml is being used etc etc.
> 
> This is my first day with Publican and I'm liking what I see very much indeed.
> 
> I would normally be using Linux for this work, but I'm running <ahem> OpenSuse and Publican doesn't seem to like that distro. However, I would like to work offline as well as online when doing my documents.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Cheers,
> Norm.
> 
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