Hi Jon,
I could be wrong (I'm away from my desk and writing this on my phone), but I think the reason is that parameter may not be legal inside term in 5.0.
Dick Hamilton
On Nov 3, 2013, at 17:34, Jon Leech <> wrote:
> On 11/02/2013 04:53 AM, Thomas Schraitle wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Am Samstag, 2. November 2013, 03:08:33 schrieb Jon Leech:
>>> [...]
>>> the resulting Docbook 5 file drops the <title> element from the
>>> <refsynopsisdiv> section (but not from the converted <refsect1> section).
>>> [...]
>>> # Release: $Id: db4-upgrade.xsl 7660 2008-02-06 13:48:36Z nwalsh $
>>
>> This is a very old version. The current version is:
>>
>> # Release: $Id: db4-upgrade.xsl 9783 2013-08-21 21:40:54Z rlhamilton $
>>
>> If I try your document with version 9783 it works.
>
> Thank you. That does help with this particular problem but introduces
> a new one: <varlistentry> elements containing e.g.
> <term><parameter>x</parameter></term>
> in the DB4 source are converted to
> <term>x</term>
>
> The changes between the revs 7660 and 9783 of db4-upgrade.xsl were
> large and it's not easy to figure out why this behavior change
> occurred, given my limited understanding of XSL. I suspect I'll be
> better off accepting the issues from one or the other version and
> fixing them up after the translation.
>
> Jon Leech
>
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