Using external DITA-OT requires empty "lib/saxon" folder

[Frank Ralf]

Hi,

When using an external DITA-OT with oXygen according to the instructions at http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/ ... ta-ot.html, I get the following error message:

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C:\DITA-OT\DITA-OT1.8.4\lib\saxon does not exist.

Adding that (empty) folder solves the problem. According to https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/498 this problem should have been solved since OT 1.5.1.

Frank

[Radu]

Hi Frank,

I reproduced this, the place in the build file where it crashes:

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C:\Users\radu_coravu\Desktop\xslthl\DITA-OT1.8.4\build.xml:44: The following error occurred while executing this line:

C:\Users\radu_coravu\Desktop\xslthl\DITA-OT1.8.4\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\build.xml:150: The following error occurred while executing this line:

C:\Users\radu_coravu\Desktop\xslthl\DITA-OT1.8.4\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\build.xml:164: C:\Users\radu_coravu\Desktop\xslthl\DITA-OT1.8.4\lib\saxon does not exist.

The classpath defined for the PDF publishing contains at some point:

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      <fileset dir="${lib.dir}/saxon">

        <include name="**/*.jar"></include>

      </fileset>

which triggers an error by default if the folder is not found.
The <fileset> ANT task:

http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/fileset.html

has an attribute which could be used called erroronmissingdir.

If nobody answers on the already closed GITHUB bug maybe you can add a new one.
Also, you can either create that folder manually or download and use the DITA OT full easy install distribution.

Regards,
Radu

[Frank Ralf]

Thanks for the quick reply, Radu. Actually, I did use the "full easy install". I will test this again on another machine and open a bug on GitHub if necessary.

Kind regards,
Frank

[Frank Ralf]

Just for clarification: I used the "standard" release and not the "full easy install" release, which actually contains a lib/saxon folder with all the required .jar files.

Frank