Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Xalan with docbook.xsl problem

[Christoph Steinbeck <steinbeck@ice.mpg.de>]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 
> Christoph Steinbeck writes:
>  > It does work with XT but I wanted to use the Xalan - FOP chain to
>  > process my XML docs, since I found it quite attractive to get PDF
>  > documents through a little java program
> 
> you can use Saxon with FOP as well, os just separate it into two
> processes (ie generate intermediate .fo file)
> 
>  > And since the apache FOP has problems with the FOP tree from XT...
> like what? have you tried Saxon?

a) The FOP parser complains about unknown formatting objects.

Z:\documents\Work\Vorlesungen\xml>c:\programme\jdk1.3\bin\java
org.apache.fop.ap
ps.CommandLine foo.out test.pdf
FOP 0.12.1
using SAX parser org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
using renderer org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer
using element mapping org.apache.fop.fo.StandardElementMapping
using element mapping org.apache.fop.svg.SVGElementMapping
building formatting object tree
WARNING: Unknown formatting object
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format^inline
WARNING: Unknown formatting object
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format^external-gr
aphic
FATAL ERROR: au

b) No, haven't looked at Saxon yet but will do in a second. 

Thanks for the hint

Chris

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