Hi Jack, Your question is essentially, "how do I get FOP to provide an XML Catalog to Xerces?". Good question but you should probably be asking this on the FOP users list [1].
Thanks. [1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/mail.html#fop-users Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org Jack Bates <ms...@freezone.co.uk> wrote on 10/09/2009 12:58:17 AM: > I'm struggling to get Xerces to use an XML catalog > > When I try to convert some HTML pages to PDF with Apache FOP, it > complains, > > [...] > Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 > for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd > at > sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection. > getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1269) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown > Source) > [...] > > Here's the complete screenlog, > http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/fop/200910080/screenlog > > I understand that w3 restricts access to DTDs by some clients which > generate excessive traffic? but my operating system - Debian - > distributes a local copy of this DTD at /etc/xml/w3c-dtd-xhtml.xml, and > an XML catalog at /etc/xml/catalog > > To get Xerces to use this catalog I tried, > > * Installed the libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java package which > contains /usr/share/java/xml-commons-resolver-1.1.jar > * Set prefer=public in /etc/xml/resolver/CatalogManager.properties > * Ran FOP with > CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/xml-commons-resolver-1.1.jar: > /etc/xml/resolver:/etc/xml/resolver/CatalogManager.properties > > - no luck : ( > > I'm following this FAQ entry, > http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xcatalogs.html > > - and additionally found this documentation, > http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/resolver/resolver-article. > html#ctrlresolver > > - but haven't figured out yet how to get FOP to use the local copy of > the DTD > > There's additionally an outstanding bug report against the Debian FOP > package, to solve this problem, > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512443 > > Any suggestions how to get Xerces to use the XML catalog - or advice how > to proceed debugging? > > I also tried running FOP with the -d option, but among the debugging > messages I didn't find anything useful... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
