Version: 3.4.0.SVN (using KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: gcc version 4.3.1 gcc version 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) OS: Linux Apparently it's not possible to translate the Valgrind documentation with Apache's FOP from DocBook to PDF. I'm not completely sure whether this is a docbook or a Valgrind issue. But we should sort this out such that we can swicth from the obsolete pdfxmltex to FOP. See also: http://www.nabble.com/fop-throws-a-javax.xml.transform.TransformerException-td16840978.html How to reproduce (make sure docbook 4, fop and Sun's JRE are installed -- output below is from an OpenSUSE 11 beta system): rpm -q docbook_4 # docbook_4-4.5-81 rpm -q jre-1.6.0_05 # jre-1.6.0_05-fcs rpm -q fop # fop-0.94-40 svn co svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk valgrind cd valgrind make dist cd docs/print export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_05 FOP_OPTS="-Xmx400M" fop index.fo index.pdf Error message printed by fop: SEVERE: Exception javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: file:/home/bart/software/valgrind/docs/print/index.fo:4417:4879: Error(4417/4879): fo:inline is not a valid child element of fo:flow. at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:168) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:166) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:197) --------- javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: file:/home/bart/software/valgrind/docs/print/index.fo:4417:4879: Error(4417/4879): fo:inline is not a valid child element of fo:flow. at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:501) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:166) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:197) Caused by: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: file:/home/bart/software/valgrind/docs/print/index.fo:4417:4879: Error(4417/4879): fo:inline is not a valid child element of fo:flow. at org.apache.fop.fo.FONode.invalidChildError(FONode.java:411) at org.apache.fop.fo.FONode.invalidChildError(FONode.java:396) at org.apache.fop.fo.pagination.Flow.validateChildNode(Flow.java:106) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder$MainFOHandler.startElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:302) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.startElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:185) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.startElement(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:1072) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:484) ... 4 more --------- org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: file:/home/bart/software/valgrind/docs/print/index.fo:4417:4879: Error(4417/4879): fo:inline is not a valid child element of fo:flow. at org.apache.fop.fo.FONode.invalidChildError(FONode.java:411) at org.apache.fop.fo.FONode.invalidChildError(FONode.java:396) at org.apache.fop.fo.pagination.Flow.validateChildNode(Flow.java:106) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder$MainFOHandler.startElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:302) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.startElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:185) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.startElement(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:1072) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:484) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:166) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:197)