import xsltver v = xsltver.detectXsltVersion('/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl') ns_ext = '' if v >= (1, 78, 0): # Use namespace-aware input file ns_ext = 'ns' env = Environment(DOCBOOK_PREFER_XSLTPROC=1, tools=['docbook']) env.Append(DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCFLAGS=['--novalid', '--nonet']) env.DocbookSlidesHtml('virt'+ns_ext, xsl='slides.xsl', base_dir='output/')