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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Right after the line:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <option name="STAMP_PNG" value="images/stamp-renderx.png"/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Add<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <option name="VALIDATE" value="false"/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kevin Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>RenderX<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xep-support-bounces@renderx.com [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rhonda Fitzgerald<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> xep-support@renderx.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] Empty attibute errors - need help modifying xep.xml file<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am getting empty attribute errors and I think it is the same issue I found here:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/29761">http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/29761</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Where you say:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><i>It is actually an error within the XT parser that started in later versions of<br>Java. We have tried (in vain) to report this but since XT was written long<br>before 64-bit even existed and the folks in Oracle/Java do not think changes<br>they made actually are an issue, RenderX is looking to replace the use of XT<br>parser for validation of XSL FO in the future release.<br><br>At any rate, unless you are actually "debugging" changes you are making to XSL<br>style sheets, you really have no need to validate the XSL FO. You should have<br>validation turned off.<br><br>You can:<br><br>a) use -valid command line switch, or<br>b) Set the VALIDATE option in xep.xml to "false" (no errors in FO are reported<br>at all), or<br>c) Set the VALIDATE option in xep.xml to "true" and set the DISCARD_IF_NOT_VALID<br>option to "false" which would report these *and* other errors, but still go on<br>and process the XSL FO.<br><br>The attributes do exist and are not empty, they are only reported as such<br>randomly by XT through some issue in changes made to Java.<br></i><br><i>Kevin Brown<br>RenderX</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However, I am not sure where and how to add the VALIDATE option to my xep.xml file. It's not currently there at all, so I want to make sure I add it to the correct place. Also, I think I want to use the third option you list above, so that I get the errors but they don't cause the job to fail. I have pasted the options sections of my xep.xml below, so if you could show me what i need to add and where, that would be great. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><!-- ======================================================= --><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><!-- RenderX XEP Configuration --><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><!-- ======================================================= --><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><config xmlns="<a href="http://www.renderx.com/XEP/config">http://www.renderx.com/XEP/config</a>"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <!-- ======================================================= --><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <!-- Formatter options --><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <!-- ======================================================= 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