Re: [docbook-apps] still setting up

[Craig White <craig@tobyhouse.com>]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 18:16 +0100, Stefan Heuer wrote:
> Hi Craig,
> 
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 10:48 +0100, Stefan Heuer wrote:
> >> > > Craig White schrieb:
> >> >
> >>>>>> >>> > > > I'm on Linux... ';' seems right
> >>>>>> >>>
> You read Dave's answer? That's not right.
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No - Dave's answer never made it to the list
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> > > ----
> > > Why is rather simple to answer...I don't know what I am doing other than
> > > trying to follow Bob Stayton's book (4th Edition).
> > >
> > > /var/www/html/docbook-xsl/extensions/saxon65.jar is from docbook-xsl
> > > stylesheets that I downloaded from oasis
> > >
> > > /var/www/saxon/saxon.jar is from saxon-6.5.5.zip that I downloaded per
> > > instructions on page 19
> > >
> > > In fact, my $CLASSPATH is starting to accumulate several duplicates of
> > > xercesImpl.jar and saxon[***].jar and I'm beginning to get real
> > > pessimistic that the consecutive install nature of each of these things
> > > (saxon/xerces/xalan/fop) are not necessarily all supposed to be
> > > installed and added to $CLASSPATH.
> > > 
> Ok, a little bit wrong from me. The saxon65.jar from the docbook package
> is not the saxon processor. The instructions are right. You have to
> download the saxon processor and the xerces libraries separately and
> install it. Where install means unpack zip file and add libraries to the
> CLASSPATH resp. create a CLASSPATH.
> 
> Alternative to usage of a system classpath property you can set the
> classpath with the option "-cp" on command line. Then you don't need a
> classpath on your system.
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well I was trying to stay with the book instructions but I recognize
that the book is a very new release so most on this list won't have it.
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> >> >> # java \
> >> >>     
> >>     
> >>>>   -Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=\
> >>>>     org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl \
> >>>>  -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=\
> >>>>     org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl \
> >>>>   *-cp  saxon.jar;/var/www/html/saxon/xercesImpl.jar \
> >>>>  -o myfile.html \
> >>>>   /var/www/html/books/content/books/xml/qm_manual/en/index.xml \
> >>>>   /var/www/html/docbook-xsl/html/docbook.xsl \
> >>>>   use.extensions=1  
> >>>>              
> >> >> I miss the mentioned saxon class.
> >> >>     
> >>     
> > > ----
> > > I'm not entirely following
> > > ----
> > >   
> >   
> There are different part of the java call:
> - "java" : calls the java binary
> - "-D[options]" : here replaces used classes
> - "-cp [options]" : sets the classpath for this java call
> -  "[started java class]" : for saxon 6.x  is  this
> "com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet"
> - "[option for in and output files]"
> 
> You can type "java -help" and you will get a short overview over the
> java command line.
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OK - I sort of get that.
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> >> > > 
> >> > > Did you tried to use Xerces 2.9.0?
> >   
> >----
> > No - should I use that instead of 2.9.1 ?

> I have no time to test the new Xerces libraries. But I can tell you that
> it works with the mentioned Xerces version.
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thanks

Craig