Mapnik/Rendering OSM XML data directly

General talk
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I’m new to OSM and Mapnik, have today installed Python 2.7, Mapnik etc.
I am trying to run a test rendering as per
**
wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik/Rendering_OSM_XML_data_directly**
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik/Rendering_OSM_XML_data_directly

If fails with a report
Must have face-name or font-set name in style 'highways’
and I can’t find how to get round it.

I’ve checked that the fonts folder is in the mapnik-v2.0.0/lib/mapnik, and mapnik-v2.0.0/lib is in the system path
The entries in the Wiki-supplied style file are:


and

Help, please!
thanks
Denis

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I used to render some maps using a mix of OSM data in a Postgresql database and local data in the OSM XML format but that broke a while back. When I posted in the areas the Mapnik developers use I was basically told to get lost. Even though their documentation still shows support for the OSM XML format they aren’t really supporting it. I ended up changing my scripts around to load my local data into different tables in the database and then did all the rendering out of the database.

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Maybe remove the brackets from:
<TextSymbolizer name=“[name]” fontset_name=“[book-fonts]”

??