Re: MacPorts xsltproc is very slow?

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:27 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Thomas Munro
> <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> I think we should complain to the MacPorts packager about the
>> namespace vs non-namespace stuff being possibly confused in the
>> packages.
>
> Any ideas about a workaround for the meantime? Having to wait half an
> hour for the documentation to build is pretty annoying.

This worked for me:

1. Steal a working installation of docbook-xsl from some other
system. Or clone the repo from github.com/docbook and figure out how
to build it so that there is an xhtml directory (that was beyond my
attention span). I just did this on a Debian system:

tar czvf docbook-xsl.tgz -C /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/ docbook-xsl

I could give you that file off-list if you want, but it's 2.2MB so I
won't post it here. You could also grab the Debian (or other) package
file and unpack that.

I created a directory ~/docbook-stuff/ and then unpacked that tarball there.

2. Tell xsltproc to rewrite any references to sourceforge.net to use
this local stuff instead. Either you can create/edit the system-wide
/etc/xml/catalog file (or equivalent under /opt if you're using
MacPorts tools), or you can create a new file somewhere and point to
it with the environment variable XML_CATALOG_FILES.

I went with the env variable approach because I didn't want to mess
with system-wide configuration. So I created a file
~/docbook-stuff/catalog.xml with this in it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
<!-- redirect references to docbook.sourceforge.net to local files -->
<rewriteURI
uriStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/"
rewritePrefix="file:///Users/munro/docbook-stuff/docbook-xsl/"/>
<rewriteSystem
systemIdStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/"
rewritePrefix="file:///Users/munro/docbook-stuff/docbook-xsl/"/>
</catalog>

Obviously that needs to be adjusted to point to wherever you unpacked
that tarball.

I did wonder about simply changing our documentation's sourceforge.net
references to point to docbook.org instead, apparently the new home
(?) of this stuff:

-<xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/chunk.xsl"/>
+<xsl:import href="https://cdn.docbook.org/release/xsl-nons/current/xhtml/chunk.xsl"/>

(plus similar changes elsewhere).

But it didn't seem to be able to fetch stylesheets that way. Perhaps
my tools don't like speaking HTTPS. I didn't try to dig any further
because I'd rather go and hack on C code today.

--
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com