Re: [docbook-apps] Advice on Java DocBook DOMSource() to PDF

["Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>]

Also, the directory containing CatalogManager.properties needs to be
in the classpath. See the thread entitled "can't get any of the 3
major free xslt processors to work" from today for more details...

On 9/8/06, Chris Chiasson <chris@chiasson.name> wrote:
> It can be hard to configure a java xslt processor to behave correctly.
> See the end of this email for a command line that will call saxon
> using xerces and use xinclude. You can probably figure out a way to
> make an equivalent call from inside a java program. I'm probably about
> to attempt it in ant.
>
> java -cp "/usr/share/xerces-2/lib/xercesImpl.jar:/usr/share/xerces-2/lib/xml-apis.jar:/usr/share/saxon-bin/lib/saxon.jar:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.70.1/extensions/saxon653.jar:/usr/share/xml-commons/lib/resolver.jar:/etc/xml"
> -Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
> -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
> -Dorg.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration=org.apache.xerces.parsers.XIncludeParserConfiguration
> com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -r
> org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.CatalogResolver -x
> org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader -y
> org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader -o
> src/Engineering_Optimization.fo src/Engineering_Optimization.xml
> xsl/fo.xsl
>
> On 9/8/06, Don Adams <dga@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wrote a Java web application that is packaged in a WAR
> > file and runs on a JBoss server.  The Java application
> > creates a valid, DocBook DOMSource().  I can transform this
> > DOMSource() into an XML file and manually run xsltproc
> > using the docbook-xsl-1.64.1 stylesheets. Then I manually run
> > fop-0.20.5 to generate the PDF I want from it.
> >
> > But, what I really want to do is to automatically generate PDF
> > from the DocBook DOMSource() in my Java web application so that
> > users can directly view a PDF file that is generated from a
> > database query.
> >
> > Does anyone have any advice on the best method to do this?
> >
> >
> > As a first step, I tried to use the
> > Transformer.transform(Source, Result)
> > XSL transformer in Java with the docbook-xsl-1.64.1
> > stylesheets, but I get these errors for xhtml/docbook.xsl:
> >
> > 11:22:37,434 INFO  [STDOUT] SystemId Unknown; Line #85; Column #15; Can not
> > load requested doc: C:\Jboss\jboss-4.0.\bin\..\common\l10n.xml
> > 11:22:37,434 INFO  [STDOUT] SystemId Unknown; Line #95; Column #20; No
> > localization exists for "en" or "". Using default "en".
> > 11:22:37,434 INFO  [STDOUT] Unknown error in XPath.
> >
> >
> > Now I'm stuck and am wondering if this is the
> > right path to go down for what I'm trying to do.
> > Maybe the docbook-xsl stylesheets aren't designed
> > to be usable in a WAR or JAR file and transformed
> > using the Java Transformer class?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Don Adams
> >
> >
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