I think you're a bit confused. 1) FOP doesn't complain about anything. My response included the corrected xslt along with a PDF I got from FOP with it. 2) I'm not sure what you mean by "valid xml". Your xml file is a valid xml. Your xslt file is not xslt if it contains any fo. If you fix the tags it's valid xslfo. 3) Converting < to < wouldn't make it work any better as anything else since you didn't convert > to >
Xslt: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp Xslfo: http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/default.asp Xslt was designed to format xml data for a web page. Xslfo expands on xslt to add the pageable tags required for a PDF which a web page wouldn't understand. -----Original Message----- From: Georg Datterl [mailto:georg.datt...@geneon.de] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:40 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: AW: ValidationException: Document is empty Hi Eric, You are right. But. Of course there's a but... Let me expand my transformation a little bit: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:variable name="A4_HEIGHT" select="'297mm'"/> <xsl:template match="ROOT"> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple" page-height="</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="$A4_HEIGHT"/> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">" > <fo:region-body /> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple"> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block></fo:block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Now fop (actually: the sax parser) complains about the < in page-height. Quite understandable, I think. And the whole transformation is no longer valid xml, since the fo tags are mixed into the xsl tags. Regards, Georg Datterl ------ Kontakt ------ Georg Datterl Geneon media solutions gmbh Gutenstetter Straße 8a 90449 Nürnberg HRB Nürnberg: 17193 Geschäftsführer: Yong-Harry Steiert Tel.: 0911/36 78 88 - 26 Fax: 0911/36 78 88 - 20 www.geneon.de Weitere Mitglieder der Willmy MediaGroup: IRS Integrated Realization Services GmbH: www.irs-nbg.de Willmy PrintMedia GmbH: www.willmy.de Willmy Consult & Content GmbH: www.willmycc.de -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Eric Douglas [mailto:edoug...@blockhouse.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2010 16:21 An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Betreff: RE: ValidationException: Document is empty That seems a strange thing to do but yes that works fine. FOP just doesn't like html in the xslt. Replace all < with < and you get an empty document. -----Original Message----- From: Georg Datterl [mailto:georg.datt...@geneon.de] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:08 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: AW: ValidationException: Document is empty Hi Eric, Indeed, the xml is nearly empty, but I'd expect a one-page document with one flow and one block inside. Regards, Georg Datterl ------ Kontakt ------ Georg Datterl Geneon media solutions gmbh Gutenstetter Straße 8a 90449 Nürnberg HRB Nürnberg: 17193 Geschäftsführer: Yong-Harry Steiert Tel.: 0911/36 78 88 - 26 Fax: 0911/36 78 88 - 20 www.geneon.de Weitere Mitglieder der Willmy MediaGroup: IRS Integrated Realization Services GmbH: www.irs-nbg.de Willmy PrintMedia GmbH: www.willmy.de Willmy Consult & Content GmbH: www.willmycc.de -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Eric Douglas [mailto:edoug...@blockhouse.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2010 16:05 An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Betreff: RE: ValidationException: Document is empty That would be because your document is empty. Am I missing something here? This is the entire text of the xml you attached: <ROOT></ROOT> -----Original Message----- From: Georg Datterl [mailto:georg.datt...@geneon.de] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:30 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: AW: ValidationException: Document is empty Hi everybody, Since nobody yet provided an answer, let's make it easier to debug. Here are a really short xml and a really short and simple transformation. The call to fop is org.apache.fop.cli.Main -d -xml test/xml/billing.xml -xsl test/xsl/billing.xslt -pdf c:\temp\test2.pdf Fop version is the latest trunk. Error message is: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: Document is empty (something might be wrong with your XSLT stylesheet). Confused is: me. What could be wrong with my stylesheet? (Yes, I know we don't like xml and xslts here, but obviously I can't provide anything else) Regards, Georg Datterl ------ Kontakt ------ Georg Datterl Geneon media solutions gmbh Gutenstetter Straße 8a 90449 Nürnberg HRB Nürnberg: 17193 Geschäftsführer: Yong-Harry Steiert Tel.: 0911/36 78 88 - 26 Fax: 0911/36 78 88 - 20 www.geneon.de Weitere Mitglieder der Willmy MediaGroup: IRS Integrated Realization Services GmbH: www.irs-nbg.de Willmy PrintMedia GmbH: www.willmy.de Willmy Consult & Content GmbH: www.willmycc.de -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Georg Datterl Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Dezember 2010 18:22 An: 'fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org' Betreff: ValidationException: Document is empty Hi folks, Another funny question from yours truly. It's been some time since our last quiz show and maybe this time we get a new winner. Anyway, here's todays problem: Given: * FOP 1.0, Batik 1.7, xmlgraphics-commons 1.4, xalan 2.7.1, xerxes 2.6.2, through maven, but I get the same results with a shortly-before-1.0-release version of trunk and XmlSpy * * A simple xml file * An equally simple transformation file, one page layout, a few blocks, two tables with blocks, two borders. Wanted: * A simple PDF, one page, no images. Problem: * When applying the transformation, I get a fo file which I can transform into a pdf. Everything works fine. * When running the xml and the xslt through fop (following ExampleXML2FO), I get the fo file which I can transform into PDF. Looks ok. * When running the xml and the xslt through fop (following ExampleXML2PDF) with MimeConstants.MIME_FOP_AREA_TREE, I get the area tree. Looks ok. * When running the xml and the xslt through fop (following ExampleXML2PDF) with MimeConstants.MIME_PDF, I get [org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder] -> org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: Document is empty (something might be wrong with your XSLT stylesheet). * When combining ExampleXML2FO and ExampleXML2PDF and using two transformations (XML->FO, FO->Area tree), I get a correct Area tree. * When combining ExampleXML2FO and ExampleXML2PDF and using two transformations (XML->FO, FO->PDF), I get a pdf, which should have one PageSequence with one page, according to fop.getResults(). I can't open the PDF in Acrobat (pdf corrupt and can't be repaired) That's it. No error messages, no hints. Area tree works, generating a pdf does not. Generating a fo and then a pdf works in XmlSpy. Does anybody see any reasoning behind that? 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