Bug 553085

Summary: publican clean_ids does not check whether it assigned a duplicate ID
Product: [Community] Publican Reporter: Don Domingo <ddomingo>
Component: publicanAssignee: Jeff Fearn 🐞 <jfearn>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 1.6CC: jfearn, mmcallis, nb, publican-list, rlandman+disabled, rlandman
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Fixed In Version: 1.4-1.fc12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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a shortened version of the source for SystemTap Tapset Reference none

Description Don Domingo 2010-01-07 02:35:43 UTC
Created attachment 382134 [details]
a shortened version of the source for SystemTap Tapset Reference

Description of problem:

When running 'publican clean_ids', it looks like publican assigns a new ID to each block tag based on information such as its parent tag, book title, chapter title, and nested <title> value. This is fine, except for two things:

- 'publican clean_ids' does not check whether it has assigned a non-unique ID. 

- as such, if another block tag is in the same chapter and has the same nested <title> value, it ends up with non-unique ID attributes, which fails validation and build.

Normally we wouldn't have sections in the same chapter sharing the same title, but clean_ids did this for <refsection> and <refsect1> tags (tried both). These tags are nested in <refentry>, and could be used for <title>Description</title>, <title>Values</title>, and the like. 

There could be numerous <refentry> items in a <chapter> or <reference>, all with their own <refsection>s or <refsect1>s for <title>Description</title>, <title>Values</title>, etc. This is the only instance I can think of where duplicate titles occur, but I think there may be other user cases.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  publican-1.3-0.fc11.noarch

How reproducible:

  I tried it out using the attached book source, which contains a <reference> and numerous nested <refentry> blocks. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. 'tar -xvf testbook.tar' ; 'cd SystemTap_Tapset_Reference'
2. 'publican build --formats=html --langs=en-US' -- build should be ok
3. 'publican clean' to remove temp XML and html files
4. 'publican clean_ids'
  
Actual results:
Running 'publican build --formats=html --langs=en-US' after clean_ids will fail, validation borks because of duplicated ID attributes assigned to <refsection>s. 


Expected results:

publican appends a unique number/string to each ID it assigns during 'publican clean_ids' (e.g. <section id="ch-ChapterOne-Title-123">). 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2010-01-18 06:25:55 UTC
Modified clean ID's to set the ID on the refnamediv instead of the refsect* tags, thus preventing ID clashes without removing links. 

workaround: none.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-01-29 02:05:15 UTC
publican-1.4-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/publican-1.4-1.fc12

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-01-29 02:06:34 UTC
publican-1.4-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/publican-1.4-1.fc11

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-02-01 01:13:22 UTC
publican-1.4-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-02-01 01:21:44 UTC
publican-1.4-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.