Hi,

Jeff King wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:21:31PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> I'm curious why manpage builds work for you and not for me.
> 
> I think it's because I'm an idiot. I must have only been using 2.0.0
> when I was looking at the XML output manually (for the refmiscinfo
> lines), and never actually rendered it to roff. I get the same problem
> when I try a full build.

Ahh.  I was hoping you'd tell me that I was a fool. :)

>> On my fedora 29 test system, ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK=docbook5 leads
>> to a validation failure from xmlto, since docbook5 doesn't
>> use a DTD¹.  I added XMLTO_EXTRA = --skip-validation to the
>> USE_ASCIIDOCTOR block, which can build many of the man
>> pages, but fails when it gets to git-blame due to use of
>> literal < > characters in the xml:
>> 
>>     git-blame.xml:423: parser error : StartTag: invalid element name
>>     <literallayout class="monospaced"><40-byte hex sha1> <sourceline> 
>> <resultline> <
>>                                        ^
> 
> That seems like a bug in asciidoctor, which ought to be quoting the "<".
> We certainly can't quote it ourselves (we don't even know that our
> backend output is going to a format that needs angle brackets quoted).

Yep, it seems so.  I filed this upstream:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/3205

I updated to asciidoctor-2.0.1 this morning to test, in case
it was one of the issues fixed since the 2.0.0 release.
Alas, we're the first to hit it and report it.

-- 
Todd

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