I made some changes to the standalone JFOR distribution for improved Docbook support (specifically, Docbook articles). A build with these changes is at http://www.technicat.com/jfor/ I'm slowly merging these changes into the main JFOR development on sourceforge. It's supposed to work with cocoon (e.g. the test samples are in a "cocoon" subdirectory in the distribution), but I don't know if you can just plug it in.

JFOR is in very early stages of integration into Apache FOP, which I believe is responsible for the pdf, html and ps output in cocoon. So if you get the latest dev version of Apache FOP, you might see something, but I doubt it will handle Docbook very well.

-Phil


John Austin wrote:


Just started playing with Cocoon again after striking out
with it about a year ago. The product is MUCH improved.


I have just installed Cocoon 2.1.2 on my RedHat 9 system and am attempting to generate RTF from a DocBook file.

1) RH 9 2.4.20-20.9
2) JAVA_HOME: /opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2
3) Cocoon: 2.1.2; simple build and invoked as ./cocoon.sh servlet
so it runs Jetty and services port 8888
4) The XML file(s) I use all produce RTF output when I use
the Linux scripts docbook2pdf, docbook2html and docbook2rtf
5) Cocoon successfully generates PDF, HTML and apparently
produces PS and other outputs (My browsers have no PS helper applications)
6) Cocoon chokes when I ask it to produce RTF output.


Question 1:

What should I do ?

Question 2:

Has this got anything to do with versions of Xerces and Xalan shipped
with the SDK 1.4.2 ? I followed the instructions on the Cocoon site
about copying the newer versions into jre/lib/endorsed directory but
there was no improvement. See output of EnvironmentCheck following
Stack trace.


Stack trace:


cause: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.EmptyStackException

full exception chain stacktrace[hide]

Original Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.EmptyStackException
        at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java:3364)
        at 
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerHandlerImpl.endDocument(TransformerHandlerImpl.java:427)
        at org.apache.cocoon.xml.AbstractXMLPipe.endDocument(AbstractXMLPipe.java:91)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.transformation.TraxTransformer.endDocument(TraxTransformer.java:529)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.endEntity(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.endEntity(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipSpaces(Unknown Source)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$TrailingMiscDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown 
Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown 
Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.excalibur.xml.impl.JaxpParser.parse(JaxpParser.java:318)
        at org.apache.excalibur.xml.impl.JaxpParser.parse(JaxpParser.java:337)
        at org.apache.cocoon.components.source.SourceUtil.parse(SourceUtil.java:229)
        at org.apache.cocoon.generation.FileGenerator.generate(FileGenerator.java:141)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.impl.AbstractCachingProcessingPipeline.processXMLPipeline(AbstractCachingProcessingPipeline.java:272)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.AbstractProcessingPipeline.process(AbstractProcessingPipeline.java:492)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.SerializeNode.invoke(SerializeNode.java:147)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:84)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.PreparableMatchNode.invoke(PreparableMatchNode.java:164)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:108)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.PipelineNode.invoke(PipelineNode.java:163)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:108)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.PipelinesNode.invoke(PipelinesNode.java:161)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.TreeProcessor.process(TreeProcessor.java:351)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.TreeProcessor.process(TreeProcessor.java:304)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.MountNode.invoke(MountNode.java:130)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:84)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.PreparableMatchNode.invoke(PreparableMatchNode.java:164)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:108)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.PipelineNode.invoke(PipelineNode.java:163)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:108)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.PipelinesNode.invoke(PipelinesNode.java:161)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.TreeProcessor.process(TreeProcessor.java:351)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.TreeProcessor.process(TreeProcessor.java:304)
        at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.process(Cocoon.java:640)
        at org.apache.cocoon.servlet.CocoonServlet.service(CocoonServlet.java:1104)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:360)
        at 
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:294)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:558)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1714)
        at 
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:507)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1664)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:863)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:775)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:939)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:792)
        at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:201)
        at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:289)
        at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:455)

Output of java org.apache.xalan.xslt.EnvironmentCheck:

#---- BEGIN writeEnvironmentReport($Revision: 1.20 $): Useful stuff
found: ----
version.DOM.draftlevel=2.0fd
java.class.path=.
version.JAXP=1.1 or higher
java.ext.dirs=/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext
#---- BEGIN Listing XML-related jars in:
foundclasses.sun.boot.class.path ----
xml-apis.jar-apparent.version=xml-apis.jar from xalan-j_2_3_0, or
xalan-j_2_3_1 from xml-commons-1.0.b2
xml-apis.jar-path=/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/endorsed/xml-apis.jar
#----- END Listing XML-related jars in: foundclasses.sun.boot.class.path
-----
version.xerces2=Xerces-J 2.5.0
version.xerces1=not-present
version.xalan2_2=Xalan Java 2.5.1
version.xalan1=not-present
version.ant=not-present
java.version=1.4.2
version.DOM=2.0
version.crimson=present-unknown-version
sun.boot.class.path=/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/endorsed/xalan-2.5.1.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/endorsed/xercesImpl-2.5.0.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/endorsed/xml-apis.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/rt.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i18n.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/sunrsasign.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/jce.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/classes
version.SAX=2.0
version.xalan2x=Xalan Java 2.5.1
#----- END writeEnvironmentReport: Useful properties found: -----
# YAHOO! Your environment seems to be OK.





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