Could be an error in your configuration file. You shoud have something
like:
external_parsers: application/pdf->text/html
/usr/local/bin/doc2html.pl
--
David Adams
Computing Services
Southampton University
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Slaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:20 PM
Subject: [htdig] htdig External Parser Error
> OK, I give up.
>
> htdig3.1.5 installed with no problems on my win2k machine running
> Cygwin. It indexes HTML files just fine. But it broke completely when I
> installed the latest version of xpdf and tried to index some PDF files.
It
> looks like every line of the pdftotext output has been flagged with an
> external parser error. Some of the error messages are appended (with some
> mods so I can see where exactly it was failing).
>
> What's going on here? The code in ExternalParser.cc looks like it is
> looking for something completely different. The big switch statement
seems
> to be looking for HTML tags inside the <> brackets. But that's not what I
> have at the beginning of my lines. I can't tell what this routine is
> looking for, but it doesn't appear to be raw HTML input. (I ran the
> doc2html command it is trying to run and got a perfectly valid HTML file
> from the PDF.)
>
> Shouldn't doc2html be returning an HTML file, and why doesn't
> ExternalParser seem to be able to read it?
>
> Help!
>
> -- Malcolm
>
> Note, I've added some debugging output to ExternalParse.cc so I can see
> what command is being run. And which parser error I was receiving (this is
> the one after the default entry in the switch.)
>
> ./rundig
> Pipe command is /usr/local/bin/doc2html.pl /opt/www/htdig/db/htdext.31408
> application/pdf "http://localhost/foo.pdf"; /opt/www/htdig/conf/htdig.conf
> External parser error 8 in line:<HTML>
> URL: http://localhost/foo.pdf
> External parser error 8 in line:<HEAD>
> URL: http://localhost/foo.pdf
> External parser error 8 in line:<TITLE>rj.dvi [foo.pdf]</TITLE>
> URL: http://localhost/foo.pdf
> External parser error 8 in line:</HEAD>
> URL: http://localhost/foo.pdf
> External parser error 8 in line:<BODY>
> URL: http://localhost/foo.pdf
> External parser error 8 in line:<PRE>
> URL: http://localhost/foo.pdf
> External parser error 8 in line:F
> URL: http://localhost/foo.pdf
> External parser error 5 in line:ast Algorithms for Mining Asso ciation
Rules
>
>
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