[xep-support] FW: Re: Spurious validation errors for Oxygen topic.fo files

Just closing out this as the thread continued outside of xep-support.

Conclusion --- Patrick was running the DITA OT and it is not programmed
apparently to take command line options like turning off validation. Since
he is not debugging the DITA OT style sheets, turning off validation in
XEP.xml was perfect for him.

Kevin Brown
RenderX

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Leevers [mailto:p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:10 AM
To: kevin@renderx.com
Subject: Re: [xep-support] Re: Spurious validation errors for Oxygen
topic.fo files

Kevin, that works perfectly! And as far as i can see, no downside.
I can now leave work in a much, MUCH better mood.
Thanks for your support
Pat

On 13 May 2011, at 19:00, Kevin Brown wrote:

> Patrick:
>
> If you just want to run with validation off so you do not get the error,
you
> can turn it off in XEP.xml. Technically, there is not much sense in
running
> with validation on as you are not debugging the DITA stylesheets anyway.
>
> Open XEP.xml in an editor and add the following in the list of formatter
> options:
>
> <option name="VALIDATE" value="false"/>
>
> This will turn off validation and unless it is set elsewhere (like in the
> plug-in itself), that should work. XEP will not validate and hence not run
> XT.jar and hence no error.
>
> Kevin Brown
> RenderX
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Leevers [mailto:p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:50 AM
> To: kevin@renderx.com
> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Re: Spurious validation errors for Oxygen
> topic.fo files
>
> OK, Kevin, thanks. Hopefully there will eventually be a Java fix.
> Have a good weekend
> Pat
>
> On 13 May 2011, at 18:45, Kevin Brown wrote:
>
>> Yes of course. What I gave you was for running XEP from the command line
> as
>> he suggests.
>>
>> You can modify your build task to just leave the assembled FO behind (it
>> deletes it in standard builds). Then run xep command line or even XEP
>> Assistant GUI against that FO file.
>>
>> Kevin Brown
>> RenderX
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick Leevers [mailto:p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk]
>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:33 AM
>> To: kevin@renderx.com
>> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Re: Spurious validation errors for Oxygen
>> topic.fo files
>>
>> Thanks Kevin, but that still has no effect.
>>
>> Radu at SyncroSoft was less optimistic:
>>
>> "...in the DITA OT ANT build file:
>> OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/demo/fo/build.xml
>> there is a target which runs XEP:
>> <target name="transform.fo2pdf.xep" if="use.xep.pdf.formatter">
>> .......................
>> It runs a Java ANT task called com.idiominc.ws.opentopic.fo.xep.Runner.
>> I've looked into the Java sources of the runner but I see no arguments
> which
>> you can set to it to disable validation.
>> I think you will have to rewrite the "transform.fo2pdf.xep" ANT target to
>> run "xep.bat" as an external process in order to get your parameters in
> the
>> command line."
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> On 13 May 2011, at 18:21, Kevin Brown wrote:
>>
>>> Change the "$@" to "-valid $@"
>>>
>>> This is the part the is sending the args to com-renderx.xep.XSLDriver
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Patrick Leevers [mailto:p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk]
>>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 1:36 AM
>>> To: kevin@renderx.com
>>> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Re: Spurious validation errors for Oxygen
>>> topic.fo files
>>>
>>> Kevin, I only speak Mac, I'm afraid. So I duplicate xep, and modify the
>>> line:
>>> "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" \
>>> -classpath "$CP" \
>>> "-Dcom.renderx.xep.CONFIG=$XEP_HOME/xep.xml" \
>>> com.renderx.xep.XSLDriver "$@"
>>> to??
>>>
>>> Sorry for lack of information. I'm running 10.6.7, with Java
>>> 1.6.0-24-b07-334.
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>> Pat
>>>
>>> On 12 May 2011, at 21:55, Kevin Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Patrick:
>>>>
>>>> The SVG is surely just a pathing issue.
>>>>
>>>> I would create a copy of xep.bat and call it xepnovalid.bat or
> something.
>>>> Set up a new transform in oXygen that calls this .bat file. In side
this
>>>> .bat file, use:
>>>>
>>>> "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java" -classpath "%CP%"
>>>> com.renderx.xep.XSLDriver "-DCONFIG=C:\Program Files
>>>> (x86)\RenderX\XEP\xep.xml" -valid %*
>>>>
>>>> Thus, forcing -valid to the command line.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin Brown
>>>> RenderX
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Patrick Leevers [mailto:p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 1:11 PM
>>>> To: kevin@renderx.com; RenderX Community Support List
>>>> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Re: Spurious validation errors for Oxygen
>>>> topic.fo files
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for this.
>>>>
>>>> Some progress -- I can now get results by rinning xep from the command
>>> line,
>>>> but:
>>>> -- svg graphics which previously rendered happily to pdf now don't;
and
>>>> -- I'll have to figure out from Syncrosoft why inserting "-valid" into
>>>> Oxygen's call to XEP (through the command string in Oxygen preferences)
>>>> doesn't seem to have any effect at all.
>>>>
>>>> Pat Leevers
>>>>
>>>> On 12 May 2011, at 20:23, Kevin Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Java 1.6.0_24 and validation ... XEP uses James Clark's parser for
>>>>> validation and there seems to be a bug with this parser in this
version
>>> of
>>>>> Java (possibly later also, not tested yet).
>>>>>
>>>>> See previous posts:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://services.renderx.com/lists/xep-support/6600.html
>>>>>
>>>>> You can disable validation for successful production or if you wish to
>>>>> validate, follow the directions in the above link.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kevin Brown
>>>>> RenderX
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: xep-support-bounces@renderx.com
>>>>> [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Leevers
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 10:50 AM
>>>>> To: xep-support@renderx.com
>>>>> Subject: [xep-support] Spurious validation errors for Oxygen topic.fo
>>>> files
>>>>>
>>>>> For no apparent reason I'm seeing many spurious validation errors for
>>>>> largeish .fo files produced from DITA source by Oxygen. The same
>> sources
>>>>> were recently generating no errors. Transformation to PDF fails with
>>> error
>>>>> such as
>>>>> [java] ERROR: Attribute 'leader-length' cannot have a value of "".
>>>>> But the topic-fo file contains no such error. To my unutotred eye it
>>>> looks
>>>>> fine. Can anyone offer me any advice please?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Pat Leevers
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Eur Ing Dr Patrick Leevers
>>>>> Director of Courses
>>>>> Reader in Polymer Engineering
>>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>> Department of Mechanical Engineering
>>>>> Imperial College London
>>>>> South Kensington Campus
>>>>> London SW7 2AZ
>>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>> Tel: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 88
>>>>> Fax: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 17
>>>>> Email: p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Eur Ing Dr Patrick Leevers
>>>> Director of Courses
>>>> Reader in Polymer Engineering
>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>> Department of Mechanical Engineering
>>>> Imperial College London
>>>> South Kensington Campus
>>>> London SW7 2AZ
>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>> Tel: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 88
>>>> Fax: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 17
>>>> Email: p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk
>>>> http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mepolymers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Eur Ing Dr Patrick Leevers
>>> Director of Courses
>>> Reader in Polymer Engineering
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> Department of Mechanical Engineering
>>> Imperial College London
>>> South Kensington Campus
>>> London SW7 2AZ
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> Tel: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 88
>>> Fax: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 17
>>> Email: p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk
>>> http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mepolymers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Eur Ing Dr Patrick Leevers
>> Director of Courses
>> Reader in Polymer Engineering
>> ------------------------------------
>> Department of Mechanical Engineering
>> Imperial College London
>> South Kensington Campus
>> London SW7 2AZ
>> ------------------------------------
>> Tel: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 88
>> Fax: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 17
>> Email: p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk
>> http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mepolymers
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Eur Ing Dr Patrick Leevers
> Director of Courses
> Reader in Polymer Engineering
> ------------------------------------
> Department of Mechanical Engineering
> Imperial College London
> South Kensington Campus
> London SW7 2AZ
> ------------------------------------
> Tel: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 88
> Fax: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 17
> Email: p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk
> http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mepolymers
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

--
Eur Ing Dr Patrick Leevers
Director of Courses
Reader in Polymer Engineering
------------------------------------
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ
------------------------------------
Tel:   +44 (0)20 75 94 70 88
Fax:   +44 (0)20 75 94 70 17
Email: p.leevers@imperial.ac.uk
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mepolymers
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