[Scons-dev] Problem using doc toolchain?

William Blevins wblevins001 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 09:11:52 EDT 2015


Dirk,

I had lxslt installed but not python-lxslt.  Once that was installed it was
obvious that it switched from lxml to lxml2 usage.  I still got another
error.
On Jul 31, 2015 3:18 AM, "Dirk Bächle" <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> On 30.07.2015 17:36, Bill Deegan wrote:
>
>>  From the code I've looked at if you have libxml2 & libxslt that is
>> preferred, and then if not it will use lxml.
>>
>>
> your assumption is correct, this is done because libxml2 is faster in
> general.
>
> It seems that libxml2 and pure lxml have different behaviour regarding
> "normalizing namespaces" and that's where the diff comes from. This makes
> at least the validation in the SernaFree XML editor choke for the lxml
> output...:(
>
> I'm investigating this a little further and will try to find a way around
> this. I'd really like to have the (almost) same output for both XML
> toolchains, such that it gets accepted by most XML editors out there.
>
> @William: You said that after installing an additional package the
> processing got faster and correct? My guess would be that you now have a
> lxml distro/package that relies on libxml2 under the hood. This makes the
> error go away of course...
>
>
> I'll keep you posted, best regards,
>
> Dirk
>
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