First of all, I know nothing about Xalan. The following article in the JavaWorld Forums:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html explains how to convert HTML to PDF by using JTidy, Xalan and Apache FOP. The steps are as follows: 1) HTML -> XHTML uing jtidy-04aug2000r7-dev 2) XHTML -> XML-FO using xalan-j 2.7.0 3) XML-FO -> PDF using Apache fop-0.20.5 My problem is that Xalan does not seem to be working. I am using Windows XP, and I have these packages installed in c:\downloads\utils\jtidy-04aug2000r7-dev c:\downloads\utils\xalan-j_2_7_0 c:\downloads\utils\fop-0.20.5 (All binary distributions; I did not compile them myself) Java 1.6 JRE (1.6.0_03) in C:\program files\java\jre1.6.0_03 Java 1.6 JDK (1.6.0_03) in C:\program files\java\jdk1.6.0_03 xhtml2fo.xsl is an XML stylesheet for converting the output of JTidy to XML-FO. This stylesheet is supplied with the article. Following the instructions in the article, I ran the following commands: java -cp c:\downloads\utils\jtidy-04aug2000r7-dev\Tidy.jar -asxml \ hello.html> temp.xml java -cp \ c:\downloads\utils\xalan-j_2_7_0\xalan.jar\ ;c:\downloads\utils\xalan-j_2_7_0\xercesImpl.jar\ ;c:\downloads\utils\xalan-j_2_7_0\xml-apis.jar\ ;c:\downloads\utils\xalan-j_2_7_0\serializer.jar\ org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -TT -TG -TS -TTC -IN temp.xml\ -XSL xhtml2fo.xsl -OUT temp.fo c:\downloads\utils\fop-0.20.5\fop.bat temp.fo hello.pdf Of course, I did not really use the "\" character. Each command is on one line, with no unnecessary white space. JTidy produces the following XML file: Hello World Hello World! This seems to be OK. The console output of xalan is: null Line #0, Column #0: template match='/' file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/xhtml2fo.xsl Line #0, Column #0: apply-templates Selected source node '#document', at file 'file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/temp.xml', line #-1, column #-1 (default root rule) apply-templates, select='null': 10001: html null Line #0, Column #0: template match='*' file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/xhtml2fo.xsl Line #0, Column #0: apply-templates Selected source node 'html', at file 'file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/temp.xml', line #-1, column #-1 (default rule) apply-templates, select='null': 10004: #text 10005: head 1000e: #text 1000f: body 10014: #text STARTDOCUMENT CHARACTERS: null Line #0, Column #0: template match='*' file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/xhtml2fo.xsl Line #0, Column #0: apply-templates Selected source node 'head', at file 'file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/temp.xml', line #-1, column #-1 (default rule) apply-templates, select='null': 10006: #text 10007: meta 1000a: #text 1000b: title 1000d: #text CHARACTERS: null Line #0, Column #0: template match='*' file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/xhtml2fo.xsl Line #0, Column #0: apply-templates Selected source node 'meta', at file 'file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/temp.xml', line #-1, column #-1 (default rule) apply-templates, select='null': [empty node list] CHARACTERS: null Line #0, Column #0: template match='*' file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/xhtml2fo.xsl Line #0, Column #0: apply-templates Selected source node 'title', at file 'file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/temp.xml', line #-1, column #-1 (default rule) apply-templates, select='null': 1000c: #text CHARACTERS: Hello World CHARACTERS: CHARACTERS: null Line #0, Column #0: template match='*' file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/xhtml2fo.xsl Line #0, Column #0: apply-templates Selected source node 'body', at file 'file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/temp.xml', line #-1, column #-1 (default rule) apply-templates, select='null': 10010: #text 10011: p 10013: #text CHARACTERS: null Line #0, Column #0: template match='*' file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/xhtml2fo.xsl Line #0, Column #0: apply-templates Selected source node 'p', at file 'file:///C:/Downloads/Utils/html2pdf/temp.xml', line #-1, column #-1 (default rule) apply-templates, select='null': 10012: #text CHARACTERS: Hello World! CHARACTERS: CHARACTERS: ENDDOCUMENT I do not understand any of this, but all those lines with line #-1, column #-1 cannot be good. The resulting file is: Hello World Hello World! This is obviously wrong. The article supplied a file Html2Pdf.java, which is supposed to be the equivalent of the sequence of commands. I compiled it, and it works. What am I doing wrong? _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline
