[PostGIS] #6044: winnie failing make check because of docbook xml validate errors

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Sun Feb 8 18:21:35 PST 2026


#6044: winnie failing make check because of docbook xml validate errors
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 Reporter:  robe     |      Owner:  robe
     Type:  defect   |     Status:  assigned
 Priority:  blocker  |  Milestone:  PostGIS 3.3.9
Component:  install  |    Version:  3.5.x
 Keywords:           |
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 This is happening on versions lower than 3.5


 {{{
 /projects/libxml/rel-libxml2-2.9.14w64/bin/xmllint --loaddtd --path
 .:/projects/postgis/branches/3.4/doc --xinclude --valid postgis-out.xml
 --noout
 http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/dbcentx.mod:316: warning: failed
 to load external entity "http://www.oasis-
 open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/ent/isoamsc.ent"
 %ISOamsc;
          ^
 http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/dbcentx.mod:360: warning: failed
 to load external entity "http://www.oasis-
 open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent"
 %ISOgrk4;
          ^
 http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/dbcentx.mod:380: warning: failed
 to load external entity "http://www.oasis-
 open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/ent/isotech.ent"
 %ISOtech;
          ^
 http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/dbpoolx.mod:3794: warning:
 failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-
 open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/htmltblx.mod"
 %htmltbl;
          ^
 http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/dbpoolx.mod:3931: parser warning
 : PEReference: %attrs; not found
 ">
  ^
 postgis-out.xml:911: element informaltable: validity error : No
 declaration for attribute border of element informaltable
 postgis-out.xml:979: element informaltable: validity error : No
 declaration for attribute border of element informaltable
 postgis-out.xml:1088: element informaltable: validity error : No
 declaration for attribute border of element informaltable
 postgis-out.xml:1186: element informaltable: validity error : No
 declaration for attribute border of element informaltable
 postgis-out.xml:155: element informaltable: validity error : No
 declaration for attribute border of element informaltable
 postgis-out.xml:194: element entry: validity error : No declaration for
 attribute style of element entry
 postgis-out.xml:328: element informaltable: validity error : No
 declaration for attribute border of element informaltable
 postgis-out.xml:357: element informaltable: validity error : No
 declaration for attribute border of element informaltable
 make[1]: *** [Makefile:577: check-xml] Error 4
 make[1]: Leaving directory '/projects/postgis/branches/3.4/doc'
 make: *** [GNUmakefile:25: check-unit] Error 1
 }}}

 I noticed on version 3.5, we are not passing in an xsl style sheet, so
 maybe that is preventing validation on 3.5 or above.

 I'm going to take that out of the configure on 3.4 and lower to see if
 that fixes the issue.
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