[email protected] wrote: > > Im a relatively new user to XML Mind here, and if this topic is covered > in the documentation, please point me to that. > I scanned through this list archives going back several months and had > not seen this issue there either. > I suspect that this issue is more with Apache/FOP than XXE, but maybe > there is some useful info here for the group. > > I am having a DocBook XML file fail to create PDF when trying to Convert > to PDF (Convert to PS as well for that matter) > It seems to be specific to this file. I can successfully create PS/PDF > from other DocBook xml files, but this one is failing. > I also ran the same file through the Apache 0.95 FOP and it also failed. > However when I run it through an eval version of RenderX it renders the > PDF just fine. I suspect that the XML Mind FO Converter plug in is the > Apache as it states in the doc/docbook/docbook menu documentation. > Though it clearly is the XML Mind FO Plug in on the addon menu.
XMLmind XML Editor supports 3 XSL-FO processors, each one having its specific plug-in (a very thin layer integrating the XSL-FO processor with XMLmind XML Editor): [1] Apache FOP 0.95. Converts XSL-FO to PostScript and PDF. [2] RenderX XEP 4+. Converts XSL-FO to PostScript and PDF. [3] Our own product: XMLmind XSL-FO Converter 4.4. Converts XSL-FO to RTF, WordprocessingML, .odt, .docx. You are almost certainly using [1]. > So my questions are: > > Is the same messages that I see during the 'executing command' window > which scroll by really too fast to read when it is running, > are these the same messages that then display in the ERROR dialog box > that comes up? Yes. > If not - is there a log file written somewhere for further analysis? > Even if these are same is there still an error log file? There is no log file per se, but you can very easily review all the messages displayed during 'executing command': Right-click on the status message area found at the bottom/left of the main window in order to display the ``message logger'' dialog box, then select "Command Execution" from the combobox of the dialog box. More info. here: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/statusTool.html > If there is an offending code, entity or sequence of codes, perhaps it > is known and I can fix that in the file. > > What sort of errors would cause failure? I have seen several other files > complain, with similar messages but they do not fail... what would be a > fatal error? Seems the offending error is > java.lang.NullPointerException does anyone know the cause? > > Finally is this not an XXE issue but rather an issue/bug with Apache? This happens from time to time with FOP. It's clearly an issue/bug in Apache FOP. It is indeed triggered by something specific to your document. > If this is known issue or something I am sorry for bringing it up again. > Any suggestions would be very welcome. I'm sorry but I don't remember why the same kind of problem happened to me with my own documents. It's generally easy, though tedious, to find a workaround for this kind of problem: comment out your document section by section and each time you do that, convert the document to PDF. Do that until you find the ``offending'' DocBook element. I would bet on a table, a footnote or a graphics file. -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
