Hi, I'm on Ubuntu feisty, and trying to compile a simple test.xml file to PDF output.<br><br>test.xml:<br>----<br><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br><br><!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML 
V4.2//EN"<br>               "docbook/dtd/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"><br><br><article><br>  <articleinfo><br>    <title><br>      Making your DocBook/XML HTML output not suck<br>    </title>
<br>  </articleinfo><br>  <section id="intro"><br>    <title>Introduction</title><br>    <para><br>      Most modern UNIX and Linux distributions come with suitable DocBook/XML tools, yet by default..
<br>    </para><br><br>  </section><br></article><br>----<br><br>running xmlto txt test.xml and xmlto html test.xml both work as expected. running xmlto pdf test.xml gives this output:<br><br>----<br>$ xmlto pdf 
test.xml<br>Making portrait pages on a4 paper (210 mm x 297 mm)<br>This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)<br>entering extended mode<br>(./tmp.fo<br>LaTeX2e <2003/12/01><br>Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
<br>ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e<br>stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis<br>h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
<br>kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.<br>xmltex version: 2002/06/25 v1.9 (Exp):<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/config/xmltex.cfg) <br>No File: tmp.cfg (/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/passivetex/fotex.xmt)<br>(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
<br>Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class<br>(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/passivetex/fotex.sty<br>)<br>No file tmp.aux.<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tipa/t3ptm.fd)
<br>(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd)<br>(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)<br>(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)<br>No file tmp.out.<br>No file tmp.out.<br>INFO: Using normal, 
i.e. nonfrench-spacing in document<br>(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/psnfss/t1phv.fd)<br><br>! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.<br><br>See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
<br>Type  H <return>  for immediate help.<br> ...                                              <br>                                                  <br>l.216 ..." hyphenation-remain-character-count="2">
<br>                                                  <br>? <br>! Emergency stop.<br> ...                                              <br>                                                  <br>l.216 ..." hyphenation-remain-character-count="2">
<br>                                                  <br>No pages of output.<br>Transcript written on tmp.log.<br>----<br><br>Any help appreciated...<br><br>Thanks in advance<br>Zenaan<br>