I am at a similar stage & followed this thread with interest. When I ran the
command line below it produced :
C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>fop -xsl glossary.xsl -xml
glossary.xml
-pdf glossary.pdf
Running FOP
----------------
[INFO]: FOP 0.20.3
[INFO]: building formatting object tree
[INFO]: [1]
[ERROR]: java.lang.NullPointerException
C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>
or excerpt of debug mode:
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerHandlerImpl.endDocument(Unkno
wn Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.endDocument(SAXParser.java:1225)
at
org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.callEndDocument(XMLV
alidator.java:760)
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$EndOfInputDispatcher.d
ispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1546)
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentS
canner.java:381)
at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:948)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TrAXFilter.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:481)
at
org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(CommandLineStarter.java:72
)
at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:19)
C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>
This is a pain as I will need to use XML/XSL input. The runtests.bat &
fop.bat worked fine on .fo but fail on XML/XSL.
I know little about Java/DOS batch files but have tried defining all FOP
.jar files in the CLASSPATH, & also the batch file command line, but all
produced the same message. I also modified the fop.bat to be runnable from
any directory & used absolute pathnames to the .jars, with the same result.
This was using JRE 1.4.0.
The DOS prompt did display more debug info, but it cannot scroll back.
Outputting to a text file using '> output.txt' on the command line instead
doesn't show the exception details.
If anyone can point out the problem or even better the solution here I would
very much appreciate it.
Regards,
Roland Neilands
Analyst/Programmer
Pulse Mining Systems Pty Ltd
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Paussa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 5 April 2002 9:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question for FOP
Jenny,
1. To convert an XML to PDF, you'll need a properly coded XSL document.
(For instance, see if you can run the glossary example in
../examples/markers
command line = " fop -xsl glossary.xsl -xml glossary.xml -pdf glossary.pdf "
2. Display the results in a web page. Look at the instructions in
http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html
3. Actually pulling it off. You'll need to study some
XSL tutorials like the one at http://www.arbortext.com/xsl/
FO tutorial like the one at http://www.renderx.com/tutorial.html
Chuck
Cai, Jenny (US - Dallas) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just successfully run the examples (simple.fo) provided in
> 'fop-0.20.3-bin.tar.gz' file under fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\fo
> subdirectory in the command prompt and I got a pdf file successfully .
> I still have the following question:
>
> 1. How can I view the source code for this example?
>
> 2. I also looked over all the rest of the folders included in
> 'fop-0.20.3' and there are a lot other folders like design,
> html-docs(some .html files in it), xml-docs(some xml files in it),
> etc. What are all those files used for?
>
> 3. Actually what I want to do is: convert a XML file to PDF file and
> display this PDF file on the web page. How to do this?
>
> I am new to this and really like to have your advices and help. So if
> you could provide further information, I would appreciate it very much.
>
> Jenny
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