Generating PDFs

[Viji Bharat]

All:
I tried one examples from O'Reilly Chapter 9 - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml/chapter/ch09.xml (Examples 9-1 and 9-2) by creatint the ChapterOne.xml and <<associated file>>.xsl files. This is supposed to convert the XML to a PDF file. However, when I open ChapterOne.xml using the browser, I get only one line
type="text/xslfo"
What is wrong? I have no clue. Can anyone help me?

[Frank Daly]

Hi Viji
You should go to http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html#faq-iepdfbug
frank

[Viji Bharat]

Frank:
Thanks for the link. I am using Cocoon 1.8.2 but I still couldn't get it working. I think I have something wrong in the setup. I followed the Cocoon instructions but could not find out what is wrong.
My cocoon directory is c:\cocoon and my build directory with all the cocoon classes are in C:\Cocoon\build directory.
I have created a cocoon directory under c:\tomcat\webapps and have copied the necessary .jar files from c:\cocoon\lib to c:\tomcat\lib and also copied the samples directory from c:\cocoon to c:\tomcat\samples.
Besides these, is there anything else I should do? Any specific settings in web.xml under c:\tomcat\webapps\cocoon\web-inf?
Any suggestions?

[This message has been edited by Viji Bharat (edited February 02, 2001).]

[Frank Daly]

Hi Viji,
Are you able to see Cocoon.xml in your browser? This indicates that your cocoon setup is ok.
Displaying ChapterOne.xml is a separate problem. The file shold display correctly in Netscape but in IE there is non standard implementation. I made a change to web.xml file that you mentioned. I added a line near the end something like <urlpattern>*.pdf</urlpattern> just like the *.xml line. This tells tomcat to use cocoon to display .pdf files. Change the name of the ChapterOne.xml file to ChapterOne.pdf
Hopefully your pdf should display ok.
frank

[Viji Bharat]

Frank:
I get this error when I try to view Cocoon.xml from my browser (IE 5.0). Any suggestions to correct this error?
Viji
Publishing Engine could not be initialized.
java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception when creating " org.apache.cocoon.processor.xsp.XSPProcessor" :
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: See http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html#faq-normalize
at org.apache.cocoon.framework.Manager.create(Manager.java:124)
at org.apache.cocoon.framework.Router.init(Router.java:80)
at org.apache.cocoon.framework.Manager.create(Manager.java:109)
at org.apache.cocoon.Engine.<init>(Engine.java:179)
at org.apache.cocoon.Engine.getInstance(Engine.java:232)
at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.init(Cocoon.java:157)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doInit(ServletWrapper.java:317)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.init(Handler.java:215)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:296)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:254)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:797)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java:210)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

[Frank Daly]

hi Viji
I posted a way of installing cocoon; it's at http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum31/HTML/000151.html
and is the second post at this link. If i was you i'd reinstall cocoon.
hope this works
frank

[Viji Bharat]

Frank:
I reinstalled cocoon 1.8.2 and made the necessary changes to server.xml, web.xml etc. but still I get the error "Publishing engine could not be initialized".
If any of you had the same problem and found a way to correct this error, please let me know how you corrected the problem.
Viji

[Frank Daly]

Hi Viji
I'm using cocoon 1.8 and I didn't get this problem. There is a faq at http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html which includes your problem.
frank