[xep-support] xep.xml - configuration

[Johann Richard]

Hello, 

I have a problem w/ XEP when I want to use (completely) other directories than the install provides.

XEP 3.2 stamped (also w/ older versions, like v3.16 (Actually, the v3.17 jar w/ -version :)
W2K SP2
Sun JVM 1.4.0

I have the following directory structure on my drive:

XEP_HOME
 |
 +-- conf
 +-- images
 +-- jar
 +-- metrics/
 +-- metrics/fonts
 +-- metrics/hyphen

Moreover, I have the following XEP.xml:

<config xmlns="http://www.renderx.com/XEP/config">
  <option name="OUTPUT_PRODUCER" value="com.renderx.xep.gen.backends.H4PDF"/>
  <option name="HYPHENATOR" value="com.renderx.xep.cmp.TeXHyphenator"/>
  
  <option name="FONTLIST" value="~/metrics/fonts.xml"/>
  <option name="METRICS" value="~/metrics/fonts"/>
  <option name="HYPHENLIST" value="~/metrics/hyphens.xml"/>
  <option name="HYPHENS" value="~/metrics/hyphen"/>
  
  <option name="VALIDATE" value="true"/>
  <option name="LICENSE" value="~/conf/license.txt"/>
    
  <option name="TMPDIR"  value="~/tmp"/>
  <option name="BROKENIMAGE" value="~/images/404.gif"/>
   
</config>

If I run XEP from the command-line, specifying the ROOT and CONFIG options correctly, either as System properties or parameters for XEP(!):

XEP_HOME: M:/xml/customizations
XEP_OPT:  -DROOT=%XEP_HOME% -DCONFIG=~/conf/xep.xml
[or also putting M:/xml/customization/conf/xep.xml, etc ... ]
[java stuff] com.renderx.xep.Driver %XEP_OPT%

I get the following error:
cannot parse '~\etc\xep.xml' as URL

I tried putting the "file:///" URI style, backslashes, forward slashes and so forth, but I always get this errror. When I put the xep.xml in a "etc" directory under "XEP_HOME", it starts complaining about the fonts.xml, hyphen.xml, license.txt  and so forth. When I put all these files into a XEP_HOME/etc, it works fine.

I tried setting all the FONTLIST, HYPHENLIST, LICENSE parameters & config values as SYS Props, parameters to the driver etc. but it always failed w/ this "cannot parse '~\etc\<foo>' as URL" error.

Could it be, that XEP looks *first* for  this '~/etc/' directory before takin into account the command-line parameters/properties? (When I put an invalid parameter for XEP, like -DBROOT=%XEP_HOME%, it will only complain about "unrecognized option BROOT, skipping" when I have setup the '~/ect/*.xml' files.]

[N.B. I could add these directories, of course, but I'd rather like to use *my* directory structure, of course.]

Any idea or hint, if it's me or XEP that does wrong? (Naturally, I'd say it is me, but I really have the impression I tried all possibilities to force XEP to understand my directory structure :)

Best regards,
johann richard

PS: Great that V3.2 has PDF capabilities and is a free update! Thanks so much!

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Johann Richard
IC & DSP Design Engineer  
Dspfactory SA
Champs-Montants 12a 
2074 Marin-Epagnier
Switzerland

Tel: +41 32 755 7400 
Fax: +41 32 755 7401 
e-mail: mailto:johann.richard at dspfactory.ch

http://www.dspfactory.com
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