It's whining about not having Docbook DTD 4.1.2, but even after I un-, then emerge both docbook-xml-dtd and docbook-xml-simple-dtd it doesn't work.
Please post - o emerge info o full build log o your /etc/xml/catalog o your /etc/xml/docbook Thanks.
Uploaded all of that information to http://test.xavamedia.nl/bug/.
Do you really have a completely empty /etc/xml/catalog ? That's what's causing big problems, most likely some package tried to add to the catalog before it was properly created. To fix, please try rm /etc/xml/{catalog,docbook} emerge libxml2 docbook-xsl-stylesheets docbook-xml-dtd and report here on success. Thanks.
Thanks, that fixed it.
No problem.