[Patch] to fix XSLT build issue - OpenBIOS

8 Apr 2007


      Hi I was having a problem compiling openbios on the lastest debian release.
I thought it may have been a problem with the xsltproc version in
debian... however the debian maintainer Mike Hommey tells me that the
issue is in the openbios code. He has generated a patch which I am
forwarding (attached) which he tells me fixes the openbios XSLT.
Regards
Alex Owen
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Hommey mh@glandium.org
Date: 08-Apr-2007 17:02
Subject: Re: Bug#401337: test case for error "Unexpected XSLT element 'param'"
To: Alex Owen r.alex.owen@gmail.com, 401337-done@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Nicolas Haller nicolas@boiteameuh.org
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:32:48PM +0000, Alex Owen
r.alex.owen@gmail.com wrote:
...
Sorry missed a line:
...
mkdir /var/tmp/testcase
cd /var/tmp/testcase
svn co svn://openbios.org/openbios/openbios-devel -r 113
cd openbios-devel
config/scripts/switch-arch x86
...
make xml
###output starts###
Cleaning up... ok
Initializing build tree...ok.
Creating target Makefile...warning: failed to load external entity
"rules.xml"
runtime error: file config/xml/dictionary.xsl line 13 element param
Unexpected XSLT element 'param'.
runtime error: file config/xml/dictionary.xsl line 22 element if
Variable 'conditions' has not been declared.
make: *** [xml] Error 10
###output ends###
Okay, I have been able to reproduce the bug... and it's not a bug.
The reason why it didn't fail before is that previous versions of
libxslt were lax on xsl:param. You are using xsl:param where
xsl:variable is to be used. xsl:param can only be top-level or a direct
child of an xsl:template.
Attached here is a diff to fix openbios-devel's xsl stylesheet. With
this patch applied, it works with xsltproc from etch.
Mike