Newbie: Suggestions for development environment

2003-04-05 Thread Joe Williams
I am a technical writer learning to use Cocoon. I have read the FAQs and done Google searches for an answer to this question (which doesn't mean that it is not out there somewhere, of course). I have installed Cocoon and experimented with it somewhat successfully and would like to begin

Re: Content formats

2003-04-03 Thread Joe Williams
Studying the DocBook DTD and XSLs can be instructional, as well, for rolling your own. DITA seems to be developed specifically to move away from the book paradigm for creating information products. You can read about it and download the DTDs and XSLs from IBM. Info at the links. Joe

Tomcat problem (newbie)

2003-03-31 Thread Joe Williams
After changing a parameter in my main sitemap, and then restoring the original config, my Tomcat will not start. Looking at the catalina.out log, I find the error pasted below. Clues, please? java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at

Re: Tomcat problem (newbie)

2003-03-31 Thread Joe Williams
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Newbie question about CSS display

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Williams
Forgive the elementary nature of this question, but I am new to Cocoon, my background is documentation and not development, and I have read and searched for an explanation for this weirdness without success. Using DocBook XML and the DocBook XSL with a customization layer, I want to change the

Re: Newbie question about CSS display

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Williams
The link to the stylesheet appears in the HTML output. I am using a sub-sitemap with the pipeline: map:pipeline map:match pattern=book map:generate src=book.xml/ map:transform src=book.xsl map:parameter name=css-stylesheet value=book.css/ /map:transform map:serialize/ /map:match map:match

Re: Newbie question about CSS display

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Williams
When I try to reach the CSS directly, I get a Cocoon error (see below). What do you want to reach with map:parameter name=css-stylesheet value=book.css/ ?? Do you have a global xsl:param name=css-stylesheet/ in your book.xsl? No, I do not. I commented that line out, and the link to the CSS

Re: Newbie question about CSS display

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Williams
1. the file is not in the same directory as the xml (according to the earlier sent match patterns and pipelines), 2. the pipeline for the CSS does not look like the sent one 3. or there is another pipeline matching on *.css before the sent one. And this one searches for the CSS file on

Re: Newbie question about CSS display

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Williams
Ah, interesting ;-) As I expected it ... Please have a look into the log files. You should get more information there, e.g. something like a stacktrace. It seems, that the book.css can't be found on the disk, where it should be to found (as you specified it in the sitemap). But the pipeline

Re: Newbie question about CSS display--CORRECTION

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Williams
There is no *.css in main sitemap, but I have not looked through all the files. - Original Message - From: Joe Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Newbie question about CSS display Ah, interesting ;-) As I expected

Re: Newbie question about CSS display

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Williams
think so), but has nothing to do with the loading of the CSS. Regards, Joerg Joe Williams wrote: Forgive the elementary nature of this question, but I am new to Cocoon, my background is documentation and not development, and I have read and searched for an explanation for this weirdness

RE: Newbie: DocBook XSL success

2003-03-27 Thread Joe Williams
Thanks, Joerg. I replaced the old xalan with Xalan-J 2.4.1 and the transformation works, except for a problem with CSS. For subsequent newbies looking for a setup that works, here's what I am using. Cocoon 2.0.3 with jre 1.3.1_06 DocBook XML DTD 4.2 DocBook XSL 1.5 The following .jar files are

Docbook+CSS: Styles not displayed

2003-03-27 Thread Joe Williams
The doc displays, and the link to the CSS is present in the HTML for the result document, but for some reason it does not display when requested from Cocoon. It does display when I run the transform from the command line. I am using a sub-sitemap with the pipeline: map:pipeline map:match

Newbie: Best practices for DocBook XSL on Cocoon

2003-03-26 Thread Joe Williams
I have a question about using DocBook XSL with Cocoon, for anyone who has been successful in doing so. In hopes of getting some help and maybe helping others, I offer the following background. After reading numerous posts to the archives for this list, and other resources, I am aware that