Re: Can FOP indent tables (say, with start-indent)?
On Monday 06 January 2003 12:02, Graham Hannington wrote: Can FOP indent tables? I don't think so. Two simple workarounds 1. Use an additional column (without borders) for indentation, for example for a 2 column table indented by 6pt fo:table layout=fixed fo:table-column comlumn-width=6pt fo:table-column comlumn-width=5cm fo:table-column comlumn-width=5cm fo:table-body fo:table-row fo:table-cell/ fo:table-cell border=../fo:table-cell fo:table-cell border=../fo:table-cell /fo:table-row 2. Put the table in another blind table with an additional column for indentation similar to the point above. Either approach has its merits. I'm using FOP 2.0.4. Really? J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Image border and page numbering issues
On Sunday 05 January 2003 21:48, rakesh patel wrote: 1. I have an external image within a block. I apply a border to the block but there's always a (1 pixel wide roughly) gap above and below the image. Probably a bug. Add the border to the image instead as a work around. a. the header to say page x of y. How to get y? (Total number of pages) This is a FAQ, see http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#faq-N10515 b. The TOC to have start and end pages for each section? eg Page no 2-5 .. Chapter 1. Same as above. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: svg fills black when using variable
On Friday 03 January 2003 01:00, you wrote:
In the example below the rectangle is filled with black instead of
limegreen. Is there a way to specify the fill color using a variable?
...
xsl:variable name=color select=limegreen/
svg:svg height=400 width=400
svg:rect style=fill:{$color} height=50 width=100 /
If something wents wrong, run the transformation standalone
and examine the resulting file. in this case, you'd have seen
you probably generated
svg:rect style=fill: height=50 width=100 /
(no color)
The problem is here
xsl:variable name=color select=limegreen/
This assigns the node set of limegreen child elements to
the variable, which is most probably empty, and not the string
'limegreen'. If you want to do the latter, use
xsl:variable name=color select='limegreen'/
Read the XPath spec for details.
J.Pietschmann
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Re: fop.jar with patches
On Friday 03 January 2003 02:23, Peter B. West wrote: I'm deeply conservative about critical software like the repository. However, when (and if) the Apache repository goes to SubVersion, FOP may be obliged to go with it. AFAIU there will be a choice, the CVS and SubVersion repositories will run in parallel for quite some time. If there is a choice, I would be strongly in favour of staying with CVS for at least six months after other projects had gone over, so that they can suffer the pain. I consider 6 month after the repository is up soon enough, although I guess there will be an extended test time to check the operational procedures (boot, backup, restore, failure modes), which may be part of this 6 months. I would say that ready for production means that significant codebases have been maintained in SubVersion for long enough for the wrinkles to have appeared and been ironed out. Well, SubVersion itself runs on SubVersion for some time now. I suppose tigris.org will migrate right after 1.0 is out. How long was CVS around before gaining the level of acceptance it now enjoys? CVS started as a directory tree oriented system on top of RCS with a locally mounted filesystem as a repository. The network client/server stuff was grafted on later, in response to popular demand and in coevolution with the idea of public repositories accessible on the internet. IIRC this started in late 1996 and it took well into 1998 to squish major bugs and quirks and included some incompatible network protocol changes. During this time it was already used for major projects, according to the cvs lists. SourceForge started somewhen in early 1999 with public CVS repositories. SubVersion was designed as c/s system right from the start, mostly in response to fix the deficiencies of CVS, in particular - truly atomic commits (you don't want to know what happens if your network or, worse, the server goes down during a lengthy CVS commit) - accessible through firewalls - moving controlled files across directories The real problem isn't that SubVersion could fail in situations where CVS still works. The problem is the availability of client side tools, specifically of GUI tools. That's not only an inconvenience for users uncomfortable with command line applications, also only with the availability of third party client side tools problems with protocol conformance will be detected. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fop.jar with patches
On Thursday 02 January 2003 15:55, Fabrizio Tringali wrote: OK, but I need the patched version for NullPointerException on Txt-Rendering bug Oops! Go to the mailing list archive, like http://marc.theaimsgroup.com select the FOP cvs list, search the CVS commit diff which fixes the problem and apply the patch by yourself. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Special Characters
On Monday 30 December 2002 16:55, you wrote: My problem is that sometimes FOP creates an invalid PDF file because of a special character (such the Euro sign, for example). Each time this happens, I look for that character in my code and replace it with an equivalent character or the Unicode representation. My question is, is there a known list of characters which will cause FOP to fail? How do you define an invalid PDF file? Does Acrobat Reader refuse to open such a file, does FOP raise an error or does the file just contain an # or other unexpected glyphs? Firstly, you should probably learn about character encodings in XML. Each XML file starts with an XML declaration: ?xml version=1.0? The declaration above means the file is UTF-8 encoded. You can't for example edit this file with Windows Notepad and enter an Euro sign (unless you have W2K or later and use save as UTF-8). You can put an encoding into the XML declaration, like ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? which means the file is ISO-8859-1 or Latin-1 encoded, the most used character encoding. However, you still can't dit this file with Windows Notepad and enter an Euro sign, because Windows usually uses an extension of ISO-8859-1 called CP1252 or something similar, and contrary to the example above, FOP will not catch this and simply output a #. If in doubt, restrict yourself to the ASCII character range and enter each Unicode character outside this range as XML character reference. The Euro sign is for example #x20AC; (including the semicolon). See http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html for a lookup table. Alternatively, get an XML aware editor and use it exclusively. Look also into the XML spec for more info: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml The second problem is that the standard fonts don't contain glyphs for most Unicode characters. Helvetica (Arial), Times and Courier have only glyphs for most of the characters from the ISO-8859-1 range (and a few characters outside this range), Symbol and Zapf Dingbats cover other ranges. See the fonts.fo file in the FOP example directory tree for details. You can render this file to PDF and see all characters supported out of the box. If there is no glyph in the font for the required character, FOP uses # or the equivalent in the font's encoding (it is some other glyph for the Symbol and the Dingbat font). For all other characters, you have to install a user font containing glyphs for the characters you want to display. See docs/html-docs/font.html for more info about this topic. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fop in tomcat-4.1.18 and struts-1.1-b2
On Sunday 29 December 2002 04:57, you wrote: Struts, and FOP are all happy, except for this hopefully harmless exception as tomcat starts up: ... Parse Fatal Error at line 551 column 44: The string -- is not permitted within comments. ... Anyone know what file tomcat is complaining about? It's complaining about a double dash inside an XML comment, which is not allowed. Track down which file is parsed, and check the comment spanning the line mentioned in the error message. The problem may be harmless, or indicate something has been uncorrectly commented out, so that the parsed content does not mathc the user's expectations. It's better to check. Apparently older versions of xerces or xalan or something is included in the java 1.4 rt.jar, and the xalan faq explains that this is one way to over-ride them. Correct. Unfortunately, the Xalan coming with jdk 1.4 has a handful of annoying bugs causing a lot of frustration. I hope the JDK bugfix distribution will include Xalan 2.4.1. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cross Post RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: screenshot and itemizedlist,top alignment in single row table
On Friday 27 December 2002 09:32, you wrote: The FOP Web Site does list some limitations with Tables, but nothing about formatting lists in table cells. Perhaps, somebody on the FOP-USER list has experienced this problem and can give us a solution or pointer. The problem is that FOP does not handle spaces conditionally, as a poster in the snipped part already mentioned. It's not specific to lists or tables. The only solution is to avoid generating space-before/after properties at places where they are not wanted. Of course this works only for table cells, at page sequence boundaries and around forced breaks. There is *no* solution for page breaks. And of course this complicates style sheets. This will not be fixed in the maintenance branch. It's not yet adressed in the redesign either. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fop in tomcat-4.1.18 and struts-1.1-b2
On Saturday 28 December 2002 13:04, you wrote: When I deploy my webapp, I get the exception below if I put the fop xml libs in my webapp's WEB-INF/lib dir. Anyone know how to resolve this? Ask on a Tomcat list. They are responsible for the classloader. I'm putting these files from fop 2.0.5rc in my lib dir. If I don't put the fop xml libs there, my app deploys ok but I don't know if fop will work with the default tomcat 4.1.18 xml jars. xalan-2.4.1.jar xercesImpl-2.2.1.jar xml-apis.jar It should work. Just try it. Make sure the Tomcat's XML parser is visible to the webapps. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page-sequence
On Thursday 26 December 2002 21:57, you wrote: 1) Could somebody please share any sample xsl that would allow me to create multiple page-sequence? I have multiple tables with combined over 1,000 rows and I understand that I need to use multiple page-sequence per page to free up memory Work yourself through a good XSLT book, and look into the XSLT FAQ, reachable from here: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/ The problem you probably have is called grouping by position. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fop recommendations on OS/390
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 15:23, you wrote: I am looking for recommendations on whether my XML file as input to FOP should be EBCDIC or ASCII. The application will be running as a servlet within WebSphere.I think either type of encoding could be made to work, but which would be best? We currently have a servlet creating an EBCDIC XML file as input to FOP processing. There is no best. Check: - Do you have an XML parser which understands EBCDIC encoding (I'd think obviously, but then, your statement above might be bogus). - Do you have to produce some input with a native OS/390 editor, which naturally produces EBDIC encoded files? - Do you have to include data from non-mainframe platforms, which rarely produce EBDIC? - What is the encoding of the strings in the database? Can this easily be changed? - Do you have to produce serialized XML at all? If you use SAX or DOM in Java, everything is Unicode anyway. If data manipulation with common mainframe tools is the exception rather than the rule, I'd use ISO-8859-1 (western languages only), UTF-8 (east asian languages are insignificant) or UTF-16 (east asian languages are significant) everywhere, including, and this is important, for storing data in the DB. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: supported image formats
On Saturday 21 December 2002 21:54, you wrote: e.g. I use fop in a production under Websphere 3.5, which has ibm jsk 1.2.2 and jdk there btw is unupgradable. That's not quite correct, we run a variety of WebSphere 3.5 on AIX 4.3.x using both IBM JDK 1.3.0 and 1.3.1. Both the 1.3.0 JDK and WebSphere itself need some patches, and unhandled exceptions create memory leaks, so you'd better catch everything in a production environment. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No handler defned for external graphic
On Sunday 22 December 2002 12:35, you wrote: Thanks. Actually i was using centipede to create the pdf which was using forrest, which was using cocoon. So it was xml-xslt-fo-pdf. Upgrade Xalan to the lates version, and you should see an error message. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No handler defned for external graphic
On Sunday 22 December 2002 14:04, you wrote: Do you mean the latest CVS? I tried with 2.4.1, same result (ie, correct result from command line, same error message via cocoon) 2.4.1 should be ok. Are you running on JDK 1.4? Check if you really use your Xalan version with Cocoon. JDK 1.4 comes with an older, buggy Xalan version which is usually loaded first. Ask the Cocoon gurus how to work around this. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No handler defned for external graphic
On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:13, you wrote: I am using the the latest CVS version (tag fop-0_20_2-maintain), and have compiled it with both jimi and JAI enabled. However, i get the following error on fo:external-graphic src=file:///somepath/someimage.jpg / ERROR (2002-12-21) 16:32.40:433 [sitemap] (Unknown-URI) Unknown-thread/FOTreeBuilder: Unknown formatting object ^external-graphic INFO(2002-12-21) 16:32.40:457 [sitemap] (Unknown-URI) Unknown-thread/PageSequence: [1] ERROR (2002-12-21) 16:32.40:477 [sitemap] (Unknown-URI) Unknown-thread/UnknownXMLObj: no handler defined for :external-graphic foreign xml The second error is caused by the first. The real problem is here: Unknown formatting object ^external-graphic This means the external-graphic element is in the default namespace. Usually this is in turn caused by not having the fo namespace declaration in scope while generating the external-graphic element, like xsl:template match=/ fo:root xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/...; !-- fo namespace in scope here -- ... xsl:apply-templates/ ... /xsl:template xsl:template match=img !-- fo namespace not in scope here -- fo:external-graphic src=@src/ /xsl:template Actually this shouldn't happen without you noticing before. Did you write the FO file directly, or generated with the Xalan coming with FOP? In the latter case, we might have hit another Xalan bug. The simplest way to ensure the fo namespace declaration is in scope is to move it to the xsl:stylesheet element.. If this doesn't work, run the transformation standalone and check whether there is a xmlns:fo= somewhere, this usually gives hints where you unassigned the namespace in the style sheet. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Zip distribution files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos) wrote: The issue has to do with incompatible line endings. If you try to run a tar.gz file on Windows it is likely to cause problems because of the line endings. As already mentioned WinZip and many other compression utilities can extract files from .tar.gz archives fine. Many of them are also willing to do the linefeed conversion for you if asked, check the online help or the manual for how to enable this. Apart from this, it is not really necessary to do the conversion, except for viewing the files in Notepad. You browser will display the HTML files delivered in the distribution just fine without any conversion, and FOP will work on the examples. If you are worried about displaying the text files, use an editor smart enough to do the right thing even if the file uses Unix instead of Windows line end conventions. MS VisualStudio is sufficient. Famous shareware editors like UltraEdit will work too. Any XML aware editor will also work, by specification. The real thing is Emacs, of course :-) J.Pietschmann
Re: FAQ Answers please
(Crossposted to both fop-dev and fop-user. fop-user subscribers, please post follow-ups to fop-dev) alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone capture any important questions and answers which I should put into the FAQ? Well questions are easy, answers somewhat less: Here is my impression 1. FOP specific technical questions 1.1 Using FOP in a servlet. Apparently, the servlet example in the distribution is not sufficient, but still a frist answer. 1.2 Using FOP in a servlet with an XSLT transformation Many suboptimal answers are regulrly posted here and to the fop-user list. The canonical answers are, use XSLTInputHandler or TraxInputHandler if both XML and XSL are files, or a SAX event stream if some XML is generated on the fly or read from an network stream or such. Code can be copied from http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devw=2r=1s=xsltinputhandlerq=b namely http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=101232320408992w=2 and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devw=2r=1s=getContentHandlerq=b unfortunately, there are various neat snippets which would have to be combined in order to show all the possibilites. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=100583267306925w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=100703832007931w=2 1.3 User supplied fonts While this is answered in the Docs, some expressive hints about what data are file names and what are file _URLs_ could be noted again. 1.4 Embedding fonts when run from a servlet The usual code how to get the settings from userconfig.xml, as for example seen at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=101421597727050w=2 This question needs to be indexed twice, obviously. 1.5 Complaints about: 1.5.1 files not found referenced in fo:external-graphics, user fonts etc. 1.5.2 MalformedURLException, especially URIs starting with (null) It should be explained o The file names are URIs. o Users should be encouraged to get familar with URI syntax (quote web ressources, at least the RFCs). o The correct syntax for file URIs is file:///some/path/file.ext (on localhost, the usual case). Emphasize the triple slash. o The resolution mechanism for relative URIs should be explained, especially the role of baseDir. o Note that XSL transformations and JAXP transformers have their own mechanism for resolving relative URIs, could be redirected to the XSLT FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html 1.6 Setting baseDir in userconfig.xml 1.7 Setting baseDir in a servlet environment Either via userconfig.xml or the Configuration, code at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=101354604124258w=2 1.8 New VFAQ: PNG images and other formats dont (no longer) work, Jimi library is missing Jimi is no longer in the distribution. Explain where to get it. 1.9 NoClassDefFound (Command line) Explain again how to set the CLASSPATH. Explain the usage of the batch files and that they have to be started in the correct directory. 1.10 NoClassDefFound (Servlet environment), getting FOP working for various servlet engines. Explain classpath issues, how jar files are gathered by various products, and possible conflicts with existing XML/XSLT libraries Subquestions o Tomcat 4 o Tomcat 3 o IBM Websphere Oh, i have this at hand: Put a copy of a working parser in some directory where WebSphere can access it, for example, if /usr/webapps/yourapp/servlets is the classpath for your servlets, copy the Xerces jar into it (any other direcotry would also be fine) Do not add the jar to the servlet classpath, but add it to the classpath of the application server which contains your web application. In the WebSphere administration console, click on the environment button in the general tab (i have a german version so you may see different names). Fill CLASSPATH in the varianble name box and /usr/webapps/yourapp/servlets/Xerces.jar (or whatever your complete path is) in the value box, press OK, then apply the change and restart the application server. o Others? The mail archive is not very responsive about this today. 1.11 Method not found Explain possible incompatibilites (XML parsers, XSLT engines, Batik). Refer to previous question. 1.12 FOP and multithreading FOP is not thread safe. Explain consequences. 1.13 FOP memory consumption (should be higher in the list). OutOfMemoryException. Mention redesign effords Suggest using multiple page sequences if possible 2. Batik/SVG specific questions 2.1 SVG text rendered in bad quality, how to put SVG text as text into PDF That's here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=100525846132084w=2 Refer also to how to use userconfig in servlets 2.2. Batik on headless servers Refer to Xvfb and PJA http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=101481782018662w=2 2.3. FOP does not exit if
Re: sax conflicts with tomcat-4.0.2-LE-jdk1.4
Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only place where Xerces is directly imported is the PFMReader and TTFReader. Ok, Driver, when startet using the command line, uses Xerces by default, but nothing prevents you from using any JAXP parser with FOP. Stuff matching org.apache.x* in 0.20.2: ...Driver.java parserClassName = org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser; ...PFMReader.java org.apache.xerces.dom.*; org.apache.xml.serialize.*; org.apache.xalan.xslt.*; ...TTFReader.java dto. ...fop.layout.hyphenation.PatternParser.java parserClassName = org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser; ...fop.tools.anttasks.CompileXMLFiles.java parserClassName = org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser; ...fop.tools.xslt.Xalan1Transform.java org.apache.xalan.xslt.*; ...fop.tools.xslt.XSLTransform.java Class.forName(org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTProcessor); I believe all this stuff could be replaced by JAXP 1.1 standard functionality. This means FOP could also be build with any JAXP 1.1 compatible XML/XSL library. This would also get rid of some unfortunate dependencies from Driver.getParserClassName() (why not use SAXParserFactory.newSAXParser().getXMLReader() instead and let the library handle all the annoying stuff? At the same time, validation could be switched off, gaining some performance in rare cases). I could try to prepare patches, however: - Is there a chance to get them into the maintenance branch? (there is a feature freeze pending, AFAIK) - Last time i tried i was not able to build FOP successfully, because of an odd ant incompatibility problem i didn't (and still don't) have time to resolve. This means i can only try basic compilation, someone else would have to finalize the patch. (Crossposted to fop-dev) Regards J.Pietschmann
RE: Entity references in FOP
Arved Sandstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The entity references are a side issue. If you are going to use validation then you must describe the entire XML vocabulary, because that is the meaning of valid. That's correct, however, even non-validating parsers are required to read and respect an internal DTD subset (with some caveats, see http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#proc-types). If the parser doesn't validate, the given XML perfectly works, I tried it myself several times with Saxon. The interesting question is: how do i turn off validation for Xerces if invoked by FOP? I could use parser.setFeature(http://xml.org/sax/features/validation,false); from Java code, but is there a way to do this via the command line, a system property or an entry in userconfig.xml? A quick glance both at the FOP and the Xerces code revealed nothing.. Meanwhile, i helped myself by putting Saxon in the class path instead of Xerces/Xalan, and use -Dorg.xml.sax.parser=com.icl.saxon.aelfred.SAXDriver Regards J.Pietschmann
RE: FOPException
Xie, David (IPCG-NJ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FOP 0.20.1. The strange thing is when I ran one or two FOP servlets embed from my browser everything works fine. However, when I send many requests, sometime I get errors such as FOPException, connection reset by peer:socket write error and Connection aborted by peer:socket write error. This is most likely caused by browsers timing out, in rare circumstances by network congestion. It could help to run the server on a bigger machine. Unfortunately, FOP is not thread safe and therefore can't easily take advantage of MP machines. This really worries me, because eventually this application would take more than 20,000 hits per week. If this is distributed over 5 days nine-to-five, it's roughly one hit every 6 seconds. If your servlet takes more than that on average, you'll have to investigate in caching and/or setting up multiple server processes with load balancing. You might want to evaluate Cocoon for its caching abilities (FOP is already build in there). Regards J.Pietschmann
Re: ERROR in server
Pedro Barco Bernal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My code is placed in a JSP and i do not know why it doesn´t run fine. The error i get is: org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: Bad file descriptor but i´m sure that the xml and xsl are well-formed... This is a somewhat rare and obscure I/O error reported by the underlying OS. No amount of fiddling with the XML/XSL is likely to fix this. There may be any number of reasons: a likely one is that the file is prematurely closed by another thread, but there may be others ranging from insufficient access rights and file locks to temporary network congestion. This is actually not a FOP question. Get hold of the system administrator of the system where this happens and perhaps some other local gurus and ask them to fix this. If you are using a commercial product (you seem to use ORACLE), asking their tech support could also be a good idea. writefile.createNewFile(); You can take a first shot by deleting this line and trying again, unless you really want to keep old PDF files (read the documentation of this function carefully). J.Pietschmann
Re: FOPException: no protocol (embedded in servlet)
Sebastian Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your help is much appreciated. I searched through the available archives (most of them seem to be down), but I cannot find some better way to implement a convert-xml-to-fo-with-xsl-and-render-that-without-writing-to-FS rendering. That's odd. Since Version 0.20.x or something, FOP is delivered with a XSLTInputHandler class. Look it up in the documentation, or in the archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devw=2r=1s=XSLTInputHandler%28q=b If you are sure your XSLT processor supports SAXResults (Xalan does), you can use a TraxInputHandler directly. Unfortunately, both XSLTInputHandler and TraxInputHandler take only files, both for the XML source and the XSLT. This is bad if you get character streams, SAX streams or DOM trees from elsewhere (e.g. from a DB or a web service). In this case you can use a SAX event stream to get the transformation result into FOP, roughly like this: // however you want to set up your transformation Transformer transformer=TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(xsltSource); // prepare FOP Driver driver=new Driver(); driver.setOutputStream(...); driver.setRenderer(RENDER_PDF); transformer.transform(xmlSource, new SAXResult(driver.getContentHandler())); The above is slightly simplified and untested. You don't have to call driver.render() or run(), as the rendering is driven by the SAX stream coming from the transformation. Note that the FOP output stream and the renderer has to be set before getContentHandler() is called. Regards J.Pietschmann
Re: FOPException: no protocol (embedded in servlet)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a FOPException while processing a XSL-FO with Fop-0.20.3rc. For testing I'm transforming a xml document into xsl-fo ... javax.servlet.ServletException: FOPException: no protocol: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1? fo:root xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; The message tells: You feed the result of the transformation as a string to a place where the underlying mechanism expects an URL. /** Durchführen der Transformation, Ergebnis in ein File wegschreiben. */ StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(xmlStreamSource,new StreamResult(sw)); There is a blatant mismatch between the comment and the code. The result is not written to a file but to a string in memory... renderFO(new InputSource(sw.toString()), ...which in turn is passed to the InputSource where it expects an URL. Lesson: Have only programmers with a clue fiddle with the code. Search the Web or better the mailing list archives for fop-user and fop-dev for how to wire an XSL transformer properly to FOP. Unfortunately, the Servlet example delivered with FOP is a bit outdated. J.Pietschmann
Re: Entity references in FOP
David Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be curious to find a list of what entities are in and what aren't. Also, I presume I can use a numeric code (#number; - or amp;#number;) to reference the character directly. However, it seems like a list of those numbers and their corresponding characters is a little too basic for the FOP documentation or the usual reference materials. I assume there's a relevant ISO document - anybody know what it is? The relevant standards bodies are the Unicode Consortium and the W3C. The authoritative mapping of HTML entity names to their character code is at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html You can cutpaste the character entites directly from that page. There may be other ressources which are more comfortable to use, look at http://www.zvon.org for example. The Unicode character index starts at http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html They use hexadecimal numbers, use them like #xpaste here; Do not use amp;#whatever, this will be shown as #whatever; in your result. You might want to read the XML spec for details, http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#sec-references Of course, whether the characters are displayed correctly depends on the fonts installed for FOP, the font selected, and perhaps the fonts installed on the machine where the resulting PDF is finally viewed. Whether a HTML entity is defined for a particular is irrelevant. HTH J.Pietschmann
Re: multiple output files
Matthew L. Avizinis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A whole lotta help needed please: I need to write to a file all the 1) page-number-citations page numbers along with their corresponding ref-id's also the 2) last page of the pdf file being currently generated by FOP along with it's corresponding file name. Odd subject for these questions. However, look at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=100747811203665w=2 and decide whether this helps you. In any case, i can't see how you can achieve your goal without fiddling with FOP internals. You might also want to educate yourself about how to write FOP extension functions. There is a brief intro in docs/html-docs/extensions.html in your FOP distribution. HTH J.Pietschmann
