Hello!
For about twenty years I've maintained my resume in XML format
<https://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/>, relying on Xalan (and fop) to
produce TXT, HTML, and PDF renderings from the same source.
The command-line used for, for example, the plain TXT version was -- and
remains:
java -cp .../xalan.jar org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in resume.xml
-xsl .../resume-1_5_1/xsl/output/us-text.xsl > resume.txt
Having tried the above command today, I noticed that the output files --
all flavors -- are /empty/. Java produces no errors, exits with code 0,
but yields blank output...
Only after installing Xalan-C -- and processing the same XML input with
that, did I get the proper diagnostics:
Xalan example1.xml .../xsl/output/us-text.xsl
Fatal Error: unable to open file
'https://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/dtd/resume.dtd'
I was then able to replace the remote reference to resume.dtd with a
local one, and things began to work properly. Why wouldn't Xalan-J yield
the same (or similar) error-message in reaction to the same error? Why
would it exit with 0 exit code?
Thank you! Yours,
-mi
