external DITA OT not working

[chrizzbee]

hi

i tried to integrate an external DITA OT into oxygen. i downloaded the 1.8.5 version and placed it in a folder. then i changed the preferences in oxygen to point to this folder. when i execute a transformation scenario, it fails. no further info in the log.

however, if i change the preferences back to the built-in DITA OT and point in the transformation scenario to the external one, then it works.

my understanding was that when i change it in the preferences, it should work too ...

do i miss something here?

thanks for help.
chris.

[Radu]

Hi Chris,

So you are using Oxygen 17.0, right?

After the transformation fails, at the bottom of the application there should be a DITA OT console view tab which would contain the entire console output received from the DITA OT ANT process.
Could you paste it as a reply on the forum (in a code section)?

Regards,
Radu

[chrizzbee]

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BUILD FAILED

C:\Users\sinteg\Desktop\demo\DITA-OT1.8.5\build.xml:44: The following error occurred while executing this line:

C:\Users\sinteg\Desktop\demo\DITA-OT1.8.5\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\build.xml:150: The following error occurred while executing this line:

C:\Users\sinteg\Desktop\demo\DITA-OT1.8.5\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\build.xml:164: C:\Users\sinteg\Desktop\demo\DITA-OT1.8.5\lib\saxon does not exist.



Total time: 8 seconds



The process finished with exit code: 1

i guess, saxon is not present in the required location ...

[chrizzbee]

sorry, yes it's oxygen 17

[Radu]

Hi Chris,

Yes, so you can either download the "full easy install" DITA OT 1.8.5:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot ... kit%201.8/

or just create that folder there and leave it empty. When the transformation is run from Oxygen, by default the DITA OT will attempt to use Oxygen's Saxon libraries anyway.

Regards,
Radu

[chrizzbee]

hi radu

perfect. the full-easy did the job. had downloaded the minimal version only. thanks a lot!