Description

I used the 'Render as Docbook' menu item to generate the XML for a page in my local wiki. The page contains {{{#!highlight python... }}} code areas. I save the XML to a file. I try to use dblatex on it to generate a PDF, but the 'language' attribute of the '<programlisting>' tags are set to "highlight" instead of "python". The causes the dblatex step to fail because it does not understand "highlight" as a language.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a page that contains some python code with highlighting turned on.

= Highlight Test =
{{{#!highlight python
class Foo():
    pass
}}}

1. Use the 'Render as Docbook' menu item to generate the XML for the page and save it to a file such as page.xml.

2. Run dblatex on the file: dblatex -T simple -o page.pdf page.xml

3. Note the errors in the output regarding the language

Example

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Details

Workaround

I created a bash script that changes language="highlight" to language="python" in the XML using sed and then runs dblatex on the new XML to get a proper PDF.

   1 #!/bin/bash
   2 xml_file=${1}
   3 pdf_file=${xml_file%%.xml}.pdf
   4 new_xml_file=${xml_file%%.xml}_new.xml
   5 
   6 sed -e 's/language="highlight"/language="python"/' < ${xml_file} > ${new_xml_file}
   7 
   8 dblatex -T simple -o ${pdf_file} ${new_xml_file}

I also created a Python script which does a similar thing, but works with the XML tree so that it won't change user text that actually contains language="highlight".

Discussion

We have no developer using docbook and working on moin 1.9.x currently, so patches are welcome!

I added a patch to the attachments. The patch was created from the moin-1.9 repository. I tested it with:

• {{{#!highlight python

• {{{#!highlight c

• {{{#!highlight

• {{{#!

• {{{#!python

They all worked as expected.

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CategoryMoinMoinBug