I'm exploring using XXE for some writing, but I'm having no success when trying to produce RTF or PDF output using XMLmind's XSL-FO converter or RenderX's XEP converter on the XML DocBook file generated by XXE.
XEP succeeds on one of its sample files, but none of the samples contain doctype statements, and none of them are DocBook. Questions: A - Can XXE be used to author DocBook XML and then produce (by itself or 3rd-party) readable formats outside of itself? (.doc, .rtf, .pdf, etc). If so then how? (I've tinkered, RTFM'ed, Googled, and explored the mailing-list archives, but no joy -- I can only print from within XXE to produce deliverable copy) B - Does XSL-FO require that it be able to access the internet? If yes, then does it honor the http_proxy env variable from the shell? Is there a command-line switch (none is documented in the Userguide). (I use linux and a proxy, so I have HTTP_PROXY set and I can wget from remote hosts, etc, but that doesn't seem to help. And rendering of my xml file by XXE is fine when I'm off the network.) C - Does WYSIWYM DocBook editing in XXE require a Doctype? (e..g., is this what's causing the two converters to fail?) D - Is there a PDF converter for non-professional users like me? (I'm using the personal version, so addons don't work) Background: I created a simple document with book info, several parts, chapters, sections, and appendices. I then tried to do a few things with it, including converting it to PDF and RTF, (and making it readable by a normal browser by adding stylesheet, etc...). The excerpts below show the basic structure. 1. First I tried XEP and I get: Result: '[error] Fatal parse error: file:/C:/Documents and Settings/me/My Documents/foo.xml: line 3, column 57: Cannot read from http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd (Connection timed out: connect) [error] formatting failed [error] org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Cannot read from http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd (Connection timed out: connect) Formatting failed.' Hmm, seems XEP wants to parse the file/URL in the Doctype. That's a shame -- what If I weren't on the internet. Then what? Seems silly. 2. Then I try removing that Doctype statement -- after all, there are plenty of examples of Docbook XML that do not have a doctype. Result: XXE no longer renders in WYSIWYM 3. Next I try XSL-FO converter: $ ./fo2rtf.bat foo.xml foo.rtf Result: 'Cannot convert "foo.xml" to "foo.rtf": Connection timed out: connect' Timed out trying to connect to what? oasis-open.org? So, I'm confused as to why each of these two converters seem to fail on timing-out, or not being able to read the docbookx.dtd file from Oasis (again, I can load the file and copy it locally via Firefox, and wget it from the shell that I'm starting the converters with). I'd like to get rid of the Doctype statement or at least the remote URL in favor of a local file, but it seems to require a large library of entities -- this may get messy. Any suggestions on getting the converters to work? Thanks in advance! FOO.XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd";> <book> <bookinfo> <title>Test Book - The Zen of Foo</title> <author> <firstname>Me Myself and I</firstname> ... <part> <title>What is Foo</title> <chapter> <title>Foo Design</title> <para></para> <section> <title>Components of Foo</title> ... <appendix> <title>Restrictions on Foo</title> <para></para> </appendix> </book>
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