define FOP configuration file in framework

[Ron Van den Branden]

Hi,

I've been developing an XSL-FO transformation scenario in an Oxygen project, for which I have defined a dedicated configuration file in the project-specific "FO Processor Settings" http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/ ... ssors.html.

Eventually, this project will have to be transformed to an Oxygen framework, and I'm looking for a way to specify a FOP configuration file at the framework level. As far as I can see, it's not possible to just copy the project's

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  <entry>

    <String>fop.configuration.file.path</String>

    <String>/path/to/my/fop.conf.xml</String>

  </entry>

setting to a framework file.

I've looked elsewhere in the forum (see http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic10867.html), where it was suggested that it isn't possible to add global options to Document Type definitions in a framework, and that instead:

A workaround would be to create and pack as an extra add-on a plugin for Oxygen which could use for example the Java API ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.PluginWorkspace.setGlobalObjectProperty(String, Object) to set a system property the first time it is started.

Unfortunately, my Java skills are insufficient to manage this; if anyone could help me out, that would be fantastic. This is what I've tried: since the framework is based on the TEI add-on framework, I've tried to set this global option in the TEIP5ExtensionsBundle Java class, by editing it as follows (inspired on what I found at http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic10846.html):

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@API(type=APIType.INTERNAL, src=SourceType.PUBLIC)

public class TEIP5ExtensionsBundle extends TEIExtensionsBundleBase {



  PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace().setGlobalObjectProperty("fop.configuration.file.path", "/path/to/my/fop.conf.xml");



  /* the rest goes here */

}

But this is not working:

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    [javac] /path/to/TEIP5ExtensionsBundle.java:75:

error: <identifier> expected

    [javac]     PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace().setGlobalObjectProperty("fop.configuration.file.path", fopConf);

    [javac]                                               ^

Where and how should the setGlobalObjectProperty be set?

Best,

Ron

[Radu]

Hi Ron,

You cannot just call methods anywhere in a java class.
At least you could surround the call to the global plugin workspace in a static section like:

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static{

   PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace().setGlobalObjectProperty("fop.configuration.file.path", "/path/to/my/fop.conf.xml");

}

Usually developers use our Oxygen SDK to compile Java changes:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_sdk.htm ... horing_SDK

Maybe as you are not very familiar with Java you could create instead an ANT script and have a transformation scenario which runs it instead. An ANT build script can take control over how the <fop> task is defined and run:

https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/anttask.html

Regards,
Radu