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</style><title>Reporting bugs and getting help</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/"><img src="Libxslt-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxslt Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XSLT C library for Gnome</h1><h2>Reporting bugs and getting help</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/wiki">Wiki</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="docs.html">Documentation</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="news.html">News</a></li><li><a href="xsltproc2.html">The xsltproc tool</a></li><li><a href="docbook.html">DocBook</a></li><li><a href="API.html">The programming API</a></li><li><a href="python.html">Python and bindings</a></li><li><a href="internals.html">Library internals</a></li><li><a href="extensions.html">Writing extensions</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="EXSLT/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">libexslt</a></li><li><a href="xslt.html">flat page</a>, <a href="site.xsl">stylesheet</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="tutorial/libxslttutorial.html">Tutorial</a>,
- <a href="tutorial2/libxslt_pipes.html">Tutorial2</a></li><li><a href="xsltproc.html">Man page for xsltproc</a></li><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">XML libxml2</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxslt">Bug Tracker</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading17">XSLT with PHP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.mod-xslt2.com/">Apache module</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://xsldbg.sourceforge.net/">Xsldbg Debugger</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>API Indexes</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="APIchunk0.html">Alphabetic</a></li><li><a href="APIconstructors.html">Constructors</a></li><li><a href="APIfunctions.html">Functions/Types</a></li><li><a href="APIfiles.html">Modules</a></li><li><a href="APIsymbols.html">Symbols</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>If you need help with the XSLT language itself, here are a number of
-useful resources:</p><ul><li>I strongly suggest to subscribe to <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list">XSL-list</a>, check <a href="http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/">the XSL-list
- archives</a></li>
+ <a href="tutorial2/libxslt_pipes.html">Tutorial2</a></li><li><a href="xsltproc.html">Man page for xsltproc</a></li><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">XML libxml2</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxslt">Bug Tracker</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading17">XSLT with PHP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.mod-xslt2.com/">Apache module</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://xsldbg.sourceforge.net/">Xsldbg Debugger</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>API Indexes</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="APIchunk0.html">Alphabetic</a></li><li><a href="APIconstructors.html">Constructors</a></li><li><a href="APIfunctions.html">Functions/Types</a></li><li><a href="APIfiles.html">Modules</a></li><li><a href="APIsymbols.html">Symbols</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>If you need help with the XSLT language itself, here are a number ofuseful
+resources:</p><ul><li>I strongly suggest to subscribe to <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list">XSL-list</a>, check <a href="http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/">the
+ XSL-listarchives</a></li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html">XSL FAQ</a>.</li>
- <li>The <a href="http://www.nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/xsl/xsl/slides.html">tutorial</a>
- written by Paul Grosso and Norman Walsh is a very good on-line
- introdution to the language.</li>
- <li>The <a href="http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html">only
- Zvon XSLT tutorial</a> details a lot of constructs with examples.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/index.html">Jeni Tennison's
- XSLT</a> pages provide links to a lot of answers</li>
- <li>the <a href="http://incrementaldevelopment.com/xsltrick/">Gallery of
- XSLT Tricks</a> provides non-standard use case of XSLT</li>
- <li>And I suggest to buy Michael Kay "XSLT Programmer's Reference" book
- published by <a href="http://www.wrox.com/">Wrox</a> if you plan to work
- seriously with XSLT in the future.</li>
-</ul><p>Well, bugs or missing features are always possible, and I will make a
-point of fixing them in a timely fashion. The best way to report a bug is to
-use the <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libxslt">Gnome bug
-tracking database</a> (make sure to use the "libxslt" module name). Before
-filing a bug, check the <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxslt">list of existing
-libxslt bugs</a> to make sure it hasn't already been filed. I look at reports
-there regularly and it's good to have a reminder when a bug is still open. Be
-sure to specify that the bug is for the package libxslt.</p><p>For small problems you can try to get help on IRC, the #xml channel on
-irc.gnome.org (port 6667) usually have a few person subscribed which may help
-(but there is no garantee and if a real issue is raised it should go on the
-mailing-list for archival).</p><p>There is also a mailing-list <a href="mailto:xslt@gnome.org">xslt@gnome.org</a> for libxslt, with an <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">on-line archive</a>. To subscribe
-to this list, please visit the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt">associated Web</a> page
-and follow the instructions.</p><p>Alternatively, you can just send the bug to the <a href="mailto:xslt@gnome.org">xslt@gnome.org</a> list, if it's really libxslt
-related I will approve it.. Please do not send me mail directly especially
-for portability problem, it makes things really harder to track and in some
-cases I'm not the best person to answer a given question, ask the list
-instead. <strong>Do not send code, I won't debug it</strong> (but patches are
-really appreciated!).</p><p>Please note that with the current amount of virus and SPAM, sending mail
-to the list without being subscribed won't work. There is *far too many
-bounces* (in the order of a thousand a day !) I cannot approve them manually
-anymore. If your mail to the list bounced waiting for administrator approval,
-it is LOST ! Repost it and fix the problem triggering the error. Also please
-note that <span style="color: #FF0000; background-color: #FFFFFF">emails with
-a legal warning asking to not copy or redistribute freely the informations
-they contain</span> are <strong>NOT</strong> acceptable for the mailing-list,
-such mail will as much as possible be discarded automatically, and are less
-likely to be answered if they made it to the list, <strong>DO NOT</strong>
-post to the list from an email address where such legal requirements are
-automatically added, get private paying support if you can't share
-informations.</p><p>Check the following too <span style="color: #E50000">before
-posting</span>:</p><ul><li><a href="search.php">use the search engine</a> to get informations
- related to your problem.</li>
- <li>make sure you are <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/">using a recent
- version</a>, and that the problem still shows up in those</li>
- <li>check the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">list
- archives</a> to see if the problem was reported already, in this case
- there is probably a fix available, similarly check the <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxslt">registered
- open bugs</a></li>
- <li>make sure you can reproduce the bug with xsltproc, a very useful thing
- to do is run the transformation with -v argument and redirect the
- standard error to a file, then search in this file for the transformation
- logs just preceding the possible problem</li>
- <li>Please send the command showing the error as well as the input and
- stylesheet (as an attachment)</li>
-</ul><p>Then send the bug with associated informations to reproduce it to the <a href="mailto:xslt@gnome.org">xslt@gnome.org</a> list; if it's really libxslt
-related I will approve it. Please do not send mail to me directly, it makes
-things really hard to track and in some cases I am not the best person to
-answer a given question, ask on the list.</p><p>To <span style="color: #E50000">be really clear about support</span>:</p><ul><li>Support or help <span style="color: #E50000">request MUST be sent to
- the list or on bugzilla</span> in case of problems, so that the Question
- and Answers can be shared publicly. Failing to do so carries the implicit
- message "I want free support but I don't want to share the benefits with
- others" and is not welcome. I will automatically Carbon-Copy the
- xslt@gnome.org mailing list for any technical reply made about libxml2 or
- libxslt.</li>
- <li>There is <span style="color: #E50000">no garantee for support</span>,
- if your question remains unanswered after a week, repost it, making sure
- you gave all the detail needed and the informations requested.</li>
- <li>Failing to provide informations as requested or double checking first
- for prior feedback also carries the implicit message "the time of the
- library maintainers is less valuable than my time" and might not be
- welcome.</li>
-</ul><p>Of course, bugs reports with a suggested patch for fixing them will
-probably be processed faster.</p><p>If you're looking for help, a quick look at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">the list archive</a> may actually
-provide the answer, I usually send source samples when answering libxslt
-usage questions. The <a href="html/libxslt-lib.html#LIBXSLT-LIB">auto-generated documentation</a> is
-not as polished as I would like (I need to learn more about Docbook), but
-it's a good starting point.</p><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>
+ <li>The <a href="http://www.nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/xsl/xsl/slides.html">tutorial</a>written
+ by Paul Grosso and Norman Walsh is a very good on-lineintrodution to the
+ language.</li>
+ <li>The <a href="http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html">onlyZvon
+ XSLT tutorial</a>details a lot of constructs with examples.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/index.html">Jeni
+ Tennison'sXSLT</a>pages provide links to a lot of answers</li>
+ <li>the <a href="http://incrementaldevelopment.com/xsltrick/">Gallery
+ ofXSLT Tricks</a>provides non-standard use case of XSLT</li>
+ <li>And I suggest to buy Michael Kay "XSLT Programmer's Reference"
+ bookpublished by <a href="http://www.wrox.com/">Wrox</a>if you plan to
+ workseriously with XSLT in the future.</li>
+</ul><p>Well, bugs or missing features are always possible, and I will make apoint
+of fixing them in a timely fashion. The best way to report a bug is touse the
+<a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libxslt">Gnome
+bugtracking database</a>(make sure to use the "libxslt" module name).
+Beforefiling a bug, check the <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxslt">list of
+existinglibxslt bugs</a>to make sure it hasn't already been filed. I look at
+reportsthere regularly and it's good to have a reminder when a bug is still
+open. Besure to specify that the bug is for the package libxslt.</p><p>For small problems you can try to get help on IRC, the #xml channel
+onirc.gnome.org (port 6667) usually have a few person subscribed which may
+help(but there is no garantee and if a real issue is raised it should go on
+themailing-list for archival).</p><p>There is also a mailing-list <a href="mailto:xslt@gnome.org">xslt@gnome.org</a>for libxslt, with an <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">on-line archive</a>. To
+subscribeto this list, please visit the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt">associated Web</a>pageand
+follow the instructions.</p><p>Alternatively, you can just send the bug to the <a href="mailto:xslt@gnome.org">xslt@gnome.org</a>list, if it's really
+libxsltrelated I will approve it.. Please do not send me mail directly
+especiallyfor portability problem, it makes things really harder to track and
+in somecases I'm not the best person to answer a given question, ask the
+listinstead. <strong>Do not send code, I won't debug it</strong>(but patches
+arereally appreciated!).</p><p>Please note that with the current amount of virus and SPAM, sending mailto
+the list without being subscribed won't work. There is *far too manybounces*
+(in the order of a thousand a day !) I cannot approve them manuallyanymore.
+If your mail to the list bounced waiting for administrator approval,it is
+LOST ! Repost it and fix the problem triggering the error. Also pleasenote
+that <span style="color: #FF0000; background-color: #FFFFFF">emails witha
+legal warning asking to not copy or redistribute freely the informationsthey
+contain</span>are <strong>NOT</strong>acceptable for the mailing-list,such
+mail will as much as possible be discarded automatically, and are lesslikely
+to be answered if they made it to the list, <strong>DO NOT</strong>post to
+the list from an email address where such legal requirements areautomatically
+added, get private paying support if you can't shareinformations.</p><p>Check the following too <span style="color: #E50000">beforeposting</span>:</p><ul><li><a href="search.php">use the search engine</a>to get
+ informationsrelated to your problem.</li>
+ <li>make sure you are <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/">using a
+ recentversion</a>, and that the problem still shows up in those</li>
+ <li>check the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">listarchives</a>to see if the
+ problem was reported already, in this casethere is probably a fix
+ available, similarly check the <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxslt">registeredopen
+ bugs</a></li>
+ <li>make sure you can reproduce the bug with xsltproc, a very useful
+ thingto do is run the transformation with -v argument and redirect
+ thestandard error to a file, then search in this file for the
+ transformationlogs just preceding the possible problem</li>
+ <li>Please send the command showing the error as well as the input
+ andstylesheet (as an attachment)</li>
+</ul><p>Then send the bug with associated informations to reproduce it to the <a href="mailto:xslt@gnome.org">xslt@gnome.org</a>list; if it's really
+libxsltrelated I will approve it. Please do not send mail to me directly, it
+makesthings really hard to track and in some cases I am not the best person
+toanswer a given question, ask on the list.</p><p>To <span style="color: #E50000">be really clear about support</span>:</p><ul><li>Support or help <span style="color: #E50000">request MUST be sent tothe
+ list or on bugzilla</span>in case of problems, so that the Questionand
+ Answers can be shared publicly. Failing to do so carries the
+ implicitmessage "I want free support but I don't want to share the
+ benefits withothers" and is not welcome. I will automatically Carbon-Copy
+ thexslt@gnome.org mailing list for any technical reply made about libxml2
+ orlibxslt.</li>
+ <li>There is <span style="color: #E50000">no garantee for support</span>,if
+ your question remains unanswered after a week, repost it, making sureyou
+ gave all the detail needed and the informations requested.</li>
+ <li>Failing to provide informations as requested or double checking
+ firstfor prior feedback also carries the implicit message "the time of
+ thelibrary maintainers is less valuable than my time" and might not
+ bewelcome.</li>
+</ul><p>Of course, bugs reports with a suggested patch for fixing them
+willprobably be processed faster.</p><p>If you're looking for help, a quick look at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">the list archive</a>may
+actuallyprovide the answer, I usually send source samples when answering
+libxsltusage questions. The <a href="html/libxslt-lib.html#LIBXSLT-LIB">auto-generated
+documentation</a>isnot as polished as I would like (I need to learn more
+about Docbook), butit's a good starting point.</p><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>