[xep-support] Formatting problem with XEPAssistant and ActiXEP

Mher Movsisyan mher at zenteq.am
Wed May 18 05:50:47 PDT 2005


Hiral,

If you want to use Saxon add xml-stylesheet processing instruction and pass
it to formatter without loading stylesheet. In case of XEP Assistant don't
supply stylesheet in Formatting Settings dialog.

Mher

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com]
> On Behalf Of Hiral Parikh
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:24 AM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: RE: [xep-support] Formatting problem with XEPAssistant and
> ActiXEP
> 
> Hi Mher,
> Thanks for your reply!
> 
> 1. ActiXEP works now with both of your suggestions - renaming the file to
> .dbx and updating the DocBookstylesheet rule to use *.xml.
> 2.  I have added the processing instruction as you mentioned, for both XEP
> Assistant and the ASP.NET sample application, but still the same result.
> 
> How can I force the ASP.NET sample application and XEP Asst to use saxon
> as
> the transformer?
> 
> Thanks,
> Hiral
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com]
> On Behalf Of Mher Movsisyan
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:31 AM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: RE: [xep-support] Formatting problem with XEPAssistant and
> ActiXEP
> 
> Hello Hiral,
> 
> >1. ActiXEP does not process the sample.xml file when I drop it into the
> >hot
> folder. It gives me this message:
> >'exception during formatting: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: unexpected
> character after document prolog (found "W") >(expected "<") '
> 
> By default ActiXEP processes files with *.xml extension as WordML
> documents.
> But your document is DocBook. Either change the extension of file to *.dbx
> (for example sample.dbx) or change the stylesheet of *.xml rule to DocBook
> stylesheet. Make sure you specify Saxon as a XSLT processor.
> 
> >2. XEP Assistant throws this error for the same file:
> >Formatting Failed:
> >file:///C:/Program
> Files/RenderX/XEP4NET/stylesheets/docbook/fo/docbook.xsl(29,2):
> >I initially thought something may be wrong in the XML but that XML
> >works
> beautifully when I use the command line tool >- xep.bat. It generates the
> PDF as expected.
> >What am I doing wrong in setting up XEP Assistant and ActiXEP?
> 
> XEP .NET wrapper uses .NET's XSLT transformation engine for XSLT
> transformation. There is a bug in .NET's XSLT transformation engine and it
> can not transform documents with DocBook stylesheet.
> 
> You can use xml-stylesheet processing instruction to transform documents
> with Saxon. For example your document will look like this.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="file://localhost/C:/Program
> Files/RenderX/XEP4NET/stylesheets/docbook/fo/docbook.xsl"?>
> <book>
>     <article>
> 	...
> 
> 
> Mher
> 
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