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<p class="MsoNormal">I get the above error using DITA content transformed to PDF through Oxygen 17 and DITA toolkit version 2.1 with XEP 4.24 on a Windows 7 system. This message appears to show up for each image element that has an embedded alt element, like
this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <image height="89px" width="165px" href="logo.png" ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <alt>Company name</alt><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </image><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some older, similar content that uses the deprecated alt attribute rather than the alt element processes through XEP without showing this error.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">XEP appears to fail after hitting 12 image elements with embedded alt elements, showing a message like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">[xep] Rendering failed: Invalid XSL FO source 'file:/c:/buildtemp/topic.fo': 12 errors found during validation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oxygen's transformation completes successfully, but produces a zero-byte PDF, whether XEP hits one of these errors or 12.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The image code in stage1.xml and stage1a.xml looks like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <image class="- topic/image " height="89px" href="logo.png" placement="inline" width="165px" xtrc="image:1;18:65" xtrf="file:/C:/Temp/test.xml"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <alt class="- topic/alt " xtrc="alt:1;19:22" xtrf="file:/C:/Temp/test.xml">Company name</alt><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </image><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In stage2.fo, stage3.fo, and topic.fo it looks like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <fo:inline><fo:external-graphic content-height="89px" content-width="165px" src="url('file:/C:/Temp/logo.png')"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </fo:external-graphic></fo:inline><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What do we need to do to get our setup to handle image elements with alt elements?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thank you for any help.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dave Gibbons<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Technical Communicator - Senior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green">P</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green">
</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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