Problem with cocoon 2.1.5, tomcat 5.0.9 on Mac OS X 10.3 with Java 1.4.2_03

[Thomas B Winans]

Greetings --

If anyone there can assist me as a cocoon newbie, I would appreciate it very much.

I have downloaded cocoon 2.1.5 and tomcat 5.0.9, ensured I extracted cocoon 2.1.5 using gnutar (so I believe file names have not been mangled in some way), built the cocoon war, placed it in tomcat's webapps folder ... all seems to go well until using a browser (http://localhost:8080/cocoon) and I get the following message:

Internal Server Error

<x-tad-bigger>Message:</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> Failed to execute pipeline.

</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Description:</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Failed to execute pipeline.: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.xml.utils.WrappedRuntimeException: The output format must have a '{http://xml.apache.org/xalan}content-handler' property!

</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Sender:</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> org.apache.cocoon.servlet.CocoonServlet

</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Source:</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> Cocoon Servlet

</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Request URI</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>

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java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.xml.utils.WrappedRuntimeException: The output format must have a '{http://xml.apache.org/xalan}content-handler' property!

</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>request-uri</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>
/cocoon/

</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>full exception chain stacktrace</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>
Original Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.xml.utils.WrappedRuntimeException: The output format must have a '{http://xml.apache.org/xalan}content-handler' property!
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java:3407)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerHandlerImpl.endDocument(TransformerHandlerImpl.java:433)
at org.apache.cocoon.xml.AbstractXMLPipe.endDocument(AbstractXMLPipe.java:56)
at org.apache.cocoon.transformation.TraxTransformer.endDocument(TraxTransformer.java:549)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.notification.Notifier.notify(Notifier.java:175)
at org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.NotifyingGenerator.generate(NotifyingGenerator.java:64)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.AbstractProcessingPipeline.processXMLPipeline(AbstractProcessingPipeline.java:545)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.impl.AbstractCachingProcessingPipeline.processXMLPipeline(AbstractCachingProcessingPipeline.java:173)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.AbstractProcessingPipeline.process(AbstractProcessingPipeline.java:490)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.SerializeNode.invoke(SerializeNode.java:120)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:72)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.SwitchSelectNode.invoke(SwitchSelectNode.java:103)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:72)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.HandleErrorsNode.invoke(HandleErrorsNode.java:60)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.ErrorHandlerHelper.invokeErrorHandler(ErrorHandlerHelper.java:85)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.PipelineNode.invoke(PipelineNode.java:149)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.AbstractParentProcessingNode.invokeNodes(AbstractParentProcessingNode.java:72)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.sitemap.PipelinesNode.invoke(PipelinesNode.java:101)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.TreeProcessor.process(TreeProcessor.java:336)
at org.apache.cocoon.components.treeprocessor.TreeProcessor.process(TreeProcessor.java:277)
at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.process(Cocoon.java:639)

...

I am not sure where to go from here. Has anyone seen this?

Thanks,
Tom
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