DOCBOOK-APPS: which version of docbook XSL with Xalan 2.0.1 forchunking ?

[Dominique JOCAL <djocal at octo dot com>]

Hello,

 

I have problems making chunking with Xalan 2.0.1 (normal generation works).

 

If I use Xalan 2.0.1 and associated Xerces (1.3.0), which version of docbook xsl to you recommend to use ? 1.29 (official release) or the last experimental one ?

 

Perhaps I make a mistake in the way I use Xalan... (seems that some extensions are missing...) I did not find answer to my problems in the archives, sorry if I pollute the mailing list with this trivial question.

 

Thanks for your help !

 

Context:

- tests done with: DocBook DTD 4.1.2, DocBook XSL 1.29, Xalan 2.0.1 with Xerces 1.3.0

- document written in c:\temp2 directory on a PC under Win2000. DocBook DTD extracted in docbookx, DocBook XSL extracted in docbook, xalan's jars extracted in lib.

- executed command line:

C:\temp2>java -classpath lib\bsf.jar;lib\xalan.jar;lib\xalanj1compat.jar;lib\xerces.jar; org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN file:///temp2/book.xml -XSL file:///temp2/docbook/html/chunk.xsl -OUT file:///temp2/book.html

- it returns:

DOM ERROR! class: org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemExtensionCall
file:///temp2/docbook/html/chunk.xsl; Line 17; Column 58;
XSLT Error (javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException): Failed calling setPrefix method!

 

- remark : this test works with Xalan 1. But I want to use Xalan 2, due to dependency considerations; I want to integrate the docbook generation in the existing set of ant tasks we have, where xalan 2 is already needed.

- at the same time I'm writting this message, I test with new XSL from Norman....

 

 

Dominique JOCAL
Consultant - OCTO Technology
mailto:djocal@octo.com
http://www.octo.com