you seem to be suffering from two problems: (1) lack of knowledge/experience with XML/XSLT in general (2) lack of knowledge/experience with XSL-FO content
this ML is not a very good place to work out problems in category (1), you really need to read basic/intro books/tutorials on XML/XSLT once you do generate well formed XSL-FO, further questions would be appropriate for this ML, since after all FOP is really a process of XSL-FO documents the fact that FOP *also* provides a convenience mechanism to input XML/XSLT is unrelated to XSL-FO functionality in general what i'm saying, is that you could be using any of a number of other tools (besides FOP) to perform the XML/XSLT => XSL-FO transformation to produce a well formed and valid XSL-FO file, and that none of this is related to FOP in general the error below shows that your XSLT is failing to generate well formed XML (that adheres to XSL-FO), so you need to debug your XSLT stylesheet regards, glenn On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:22 AM, nels <nbhc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reading this http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/xslfo_xslt.asp but can't get > my > XSL correct. The failure is: > > fop -xml schools.xml -xsl schools.xsl -pdf schools.pdf > > 18/10/2012 1:16:23 AM org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP > SEVERE: Exception > Throwable occurred: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: The markup in > the document following the root element must be well-formed. > at > org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:303) > at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:130) > at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:177) > at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:208) > > --------- > > ; SystemID: file:/tmp/nelsonc/schools.xml; Line#: 3; Column#: 2 > javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: The markup in the document > following the root element must be well-formed. > at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.fatalError(Unknown > Source) > at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown > Source) > at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown > Source) > at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:300) > at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:130) > at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:177) > at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:208) > > > The XML is as per example and the XSL is: > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; > xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";> > <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/> > > <xsl:template match="header"> > <fo:block font-size="14pt" font-family="verdana" color="red" > space-before="5mm" space-after="5mm"> > <xsl:apply-templates/> > </fo:block> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="paragraph"> > <fo:block text-indent="5mm" font-family="verdana" font-size="12pt"> > <xsl:apply-templates/> > </fo:block> > </xsl:template> > > </xsl:stylesheet> > > > I took the example XSL lines and added a header and closing tag line but it > fails to run. I am probably doing something very dumb. Please help. > > > > ----- > just starting out with FOP - don't hurt me! > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-fop.1065347.n5.nabble.com/XML-to-PDF-on-AIX-tp37006p37060.html > Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > >
