pdf transformations not working

guest · Post by **guest** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 2:32 am

hi there, just started using oxygen, this could be simple, but i cant figure it out! I'd appreciate some help if anyone has seen this before!

I seem to be able to run the whole process of validating an xml file, a stylesheet for that style and a dtd/schema. I seem to be able to setup and run the transformation to pdf, in other words the software reports that the transformation was successful.

However, there just isnt a file generated. There are no errors, but nothing happens.

Ive tried using very simple files, and ive tried using files included with the distribution....

Any ideas?

Post by **george** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 10:15 am

Hi,

We have no record of something similar so in order to help you we need sample files and a description of what you have tried to do.

Best Regards,
George

Post by **jaimes** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 2:27 pm

of course, thanks, thats me by the way, i'm registered now

These are the xml/xsl/dtd files. I am quite new to this so there may just be something really wrong with my files. I used the "learn structure" button to generate the dtd.

I am able to configure a transformation, following instructions of the help files, and able to "apply transformation", but no file is generated.

Thanks for the help, oxygen seems like a really cool product, I want to figure this out and get into it!!

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE Studies SYSTEM "file:/Library/WebServer/Documents/dev/oxygen/oxygen2.dtd">

<?xml-stylesheet href="invoice.xsl" type="text/xsl" ?>

<Studies>

    <Year>

        <Course>

            <Lecture>

                <Lecturer/>

                <Date/>

                <Title/>

                <Notes>

                    <Section>

                        <Heading/>

                        <Para/>

                    </Section>

                </Notes>

            </Lecture>

            <CourseTitle/>

            <CourseID/>

        </Course>

        <Date>2003</Date>

        <Period>First Year</Period>

    </Year>

</Studies>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <html>

            <head>

                <title>invoice</title>

            </head>

            <body>

                <xsl:value-of select="/" />

            </body>

        </html>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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<!ELEMENT Year (#PCDATA | Course | Date | Period)*>

<!ELEMENT CourseTitle (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT Para (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT Notes (#PCDATA | Section)*>

<!ELEMENT Section (#PCDATA | Heading | Para)*>

<!ELEMENT Lecturer (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT Title (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT Course (#PCDATA | Lecture | CourseTitle | CourseID)*>

<!ELEMENT Date (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT Lecture (#PCDATA | Lecturer | Date | Title | Notes)*>

<!ELEMENT CourseID (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT Heading (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT Period (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT Studies (#PCDATA | Year)*>

Post by **george** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 12:10 am

Hi,

Thanks for posting the documents.
Oxygen uses a FOP to generate PDF documents. It comes with Apache FOP but other FOPs can be easily added. The input for a FOP is a formating objects document. Now your stylesheet generates HTML and not FO therefore it cannot be converted to PDF.

For a FO tutorial you can look at
http://www.renderx.com/tutorial.html
The RenderX FOP - that is XEP - can be very easily integrated to work with oXygen, see
http://xep.xattic.com/xep/connectors/oxygen.html

Hope that helps,
George

Post by **jaimes** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 10:02 pm

Cool, thanks, I'll get into that.....

Post by MJ » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:38 pm

I'm having the same problem with the built-in FOP in Oxygen 2.0.4 - I have configured my XSLT transformation for FO output to PDF using the built-in Apache FOP processor. Transformation runs fine (no errors), but no files are generated.

I'd prefer to use Apache FO instead of XEP since I work for an academic institution and Apache FO is free. (yes, I know XEP has an academic license...)

I *am* generating valid (as far as I know) FO so if anyone has had this problem or knows what I'm doing wrong, any help would be appreciated!

(the XML source is long so I won't include it but trust me, it's well-formed and valid to the DTD)

XSLT (well-formed, valid):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

 <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD v1.0 20021201//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.0/journalpublishing.dtd">



<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"

                            xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"

                            xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">



<xsl:strip-space elements="table|tbody|tr|th|td"/>



<xsl:variable name="baseDir" select="'../../../'"/>



<xsl:template match="/article">

    <fo:root font-size="10pt" font-family="Times" text-align="justify" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

        <fo:layout-master-set>

            <fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" margin-top="1.5cm" margin-bottom="1cm" margin-left="2.5cm" margin-right="2.5cm">

                <fo:region-before extent="1cm"/>

                <fo:region-body margin-top="1cm" margin-bottom="1.5cm"/>

                <fo:region-after extent="1cm"/>

            </fo:simple-page-master>

        </fo:layout-master-set>

        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple">

            <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">

                <fo:block text-align="end" border-top="0.1pt solid black" padding-before="3pt" space-after.optimum="3pt">JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

                </fo:block>

            </fo:static-content>

            <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">

                <fo:block font-size="6pt">

                    <fo:table widows="1" table-layout="fixed">

                        <fo:table-column column-width="8cm"/>

                        <fo:table-column column-width="8cm"/>

                        <fo:table-body>

                            <fo:table-row>

                                <fo:table-cell>

                                    <fo:block>

                                        <xsl:value-of select="front/self-uri/@xlink:href"/>

                                    </fo:block>

                                </fo:table-cell>

                                <fo:table-cell>

                                    <fo:block text-align="right">

                                        <xsl:value-of select="front/journal-meta/journal-id[@journal-id-type='nlm-ta']"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="front/article-meta/pub-date/year"/> | vol. <xsl:value-of select="front/article-meta/volume"/> | iss. <xsl:value-of select="front/article-meta/issue"/> | page <xsl:value-of select="front/article-meta/elocation-id"/>-<fo:page-number/>

                                    </fo:block>

                                </fo:table-cell>

                            </fo:table-row>

                        </fo:table-body>

                    </fo:table>

                </fo:block>

            </fo:static-content>

            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">

<!--

				<xsl:call-template name="header"/>

				<xsl:call-template name="body"/>

				<xsl:call-template name="footer"/>

-->

            </fo:flow>

        </fo:page-sequence>

    </fo:root>

</xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>

FO (when i use the XSLT to output to a .fo file):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" text-align="justify" font-family="Times" font-size="10pt"><fo:layout-master-set><fo:simple-page-master margin-right="2.5cm" margin-left="2.5cm" margin-bottom="1cm" margin-top="1.5cm" page-width="21cm" page-height="29.7cm" master-name="simple"><fo:region-before extent="1cm"/><fo:region-body margin-bottom="1.5cm" margin-top="1cm"/><fo:region-after extent="1cm"/></fo:simple-page-master></fo:layout-master-set><fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple"><fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before"><fo:block space-after.optimum="3pt" padding-before="3pt" border-top="0.1pt solid black" text-align="end">JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

                </fo:block></fo:static-content><fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after"><fo:block font-size="6pt"><fo:table table-layout="fixed" widows="1"><fo:table-column column-width="8cm"/><fo:table-column column-width="8cm"/><fo:table-body><fo:table-row><fo:table-cell><fo:block/></fo:table-cell><fo:table-cell><fo:block text-align="right">J Med Internet Res 2003 | vol. 5 | iss. 3 | page e23-<fo:page-number/></fo:block></fo:table-cell></fo:table-row></fo:table-body></fo:table></fo:block></fo:static-content><fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"/></fo:page-sequence></fo:root>

Help!

MJ

Post by **jaimes** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:50 pm

MJ, its not the same thing, I was being new, its working for me now that I am transforming to fo and not html...

sorry, good luck...

Post by MJ » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:56 pm

Are you using the built-in FOP successfully then? I seem to be having the same symptoms as yourself - do you think it might be because I'm generating invalid FO?

M

Post by MJ » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:52 pm

My suspicion was correct.... It was an error in the FO formatting. Apparently FOP errors aren't passed back to Oxygen when parsing FO -> PDF. (XML -> FO errors are reported, however). Hopefully there is some way to change/fix this in the future?

M

Post by **george** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:00 am

Hi,

The next release will add a new option FO processor/ Enable built-in FOP output that will allow you to see eventual errors of the Apache FOP.

Best Regards,
George

pdf transformations not working

pdf transformations not working

re::

having same issue with built-in Apache FOP

different thing ;)

not the same?

FOP errors with Oxygen