Bug 2258240 - db2pdf doesn't work with the 4.5 Docbook DTD
Summary: db2pdf doesn't work with the 4.5 Docbook DTD
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: opensp
Version: 45
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Ondřej Sloup
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 2257976
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Reported: 2024-01-13 15:00 UTC by Ondrej Mosnáček
Modified: 2026-08-17 13:17 UTC (History)
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Description Ondrej Mosnáček 2024-01-13 15:00:30 UTC
Using the 4.1.2 DTD works without issues, but 4.5 fails even with a minimal document. Please see the reproducer below.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ cat >test.xml <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V45//EN"
        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" []>

<book id="test" revision="1.0"/>
EOF
$ db2pdf test.xml

Actual Results:  
Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/xml-docbook.cat
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl#print
Working on: /root/test.xml
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:42:30:E: "1D6C2" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:43:30:E: "1D6C3" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:44:30:E: "1D6D8" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:45:30:E: "1D6AB" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:46:30:E: "1D6C5" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:47:30:E: "1D6C6" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:48:30:E: "1D6DC" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:49:30:E: "1D6C8" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:50:30:E: "1D6AA" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:51:30:E: "1D6C4" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:54:30:E: "1D6CA" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:55:30:E: "1D6CB" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:56:30:E: "1D6DE" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:57:30:E: "1D6B2" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:58:30:E: "1D6CC" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:59:30:E: "1D6CD" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:60:30:E: "1D6CE" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:61:30:E: "1D6C0" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:62:30:E: "1D6DA" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:63:30:E: "1D6BD" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:64:30:E: "1D6D7" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:65:30:E: "1D6DF" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:66:30:E: "1D6B7" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:67:30:E: "1D6D1" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:68:30:E: "1D6E1" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:69:30:E: "1D6BF" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:70:30:E: "1D6D9" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:71:30:E: "1D6D2" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:72:30:E: "1D6E0" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:73:30:E: "1D6BA" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:74:30:E: "1D6D4" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:75:30:E: "1D6D3" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:76:30:E: "1D6D5" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:77:30:E: "1D6AF" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:78:30:E: "1D6C9" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:79:30:E: "1D6DD" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:80:30:E: "1D6BC" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:81:30:E: "1D6D6" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:82:30:E: "1D6B5" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:83:30:E: "1D6CF" is not a character number in the document character set
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent:84:30:E: "1D6C7" is not a character number in the document character set


Expected Results:  
The command succeeds.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2024-02-15 23:10:02 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 40 development cycle.
Changing version to 40.

Comment 2 Ondřej Sloup 2024-04-03 00:16:31 UTC
Hello,

From what I've seen, the issue lies in mathematical characters ('𝛂','𝛃', '𝛘', '𝚫', '𝛅', '𝛆', '𝛜'..) that the script has trouble reading. The Docbook should be backwards compatible and there could also be a problem with the OpenJade. I'll try to look into it.

Comment 3 Ondřej Sloup 2024-04-03 00:25:06 UTC
The file with errors `/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isogrk4.ent` was added in 4.4 Docbook DTD, which might explain why it worked previously, and upon further verification, I confirmed that the file does not work with version 4.4 and does work with 4.3.

Comment 4 Ondřej Sloup 2024-04-03 00:45:20 UTC
From what I've seen, this issue has sadly been in OpenJade for almost 15 years. 

https://sourceforge.net/p/openjade/bugs/135/
https://sourceforge.net/p/openjade/bugs/121/

Those packages are incompatible with the newest upstream version, and I don't believe we can fix it.

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Comment 6 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 13:17:23 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.


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