Description of problem: When building a translated book, the merged Revision_History.xml file is missing its DOCTYPE declaration. If the file contains DocBook entities (for example, ) the book will not build Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): publican-3.0-0.fc17.t219.noarch How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. run publican build for a translated book 2. inspect the head of tmp/<LANG>/xml_tmp/Revision_History.xml Actual results: No DOCTYPE declaration Expected results: DOCTYPE declaration Additional info: 1. Add somewhere in a <member> in the en-US/Revision_History.xml file 2. Run publican build Build fails with something like: undefined entity at line 97, column 20, byte 2613: <revdescription> <simplelist> <member>System z 特有の RAID スクリーンショットを追加 — BZ#639193</member> ===================^ <member>anaconda はパーティションの拡大ではなく縮小のみ行う旨を記載 — BZ#642881</member> <member>System z が <filename>/boot</filename> に ext4 は使用できない旨を記載 — BZ#642881</member> at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser.pm line 187
Fixed in build publican-3.0-0.fc17.t222.noarch