I narrowed it down...
I use the profiling XSLT file docbook/xsl-1.69.1/fo/profile-docbook.xsl
First I stripped out all my customizations and it still failed.
So I switched to the "regular" one docbook/xsl-1.69.1/fo/docbook.xsl
No errors.
Interesting...
-Alan
Alan C. Oehler
Sr. Technical Writer
XenSource, Inc.
Phone: 650.798.5900 x 240
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan C. Oehler [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:07 AM
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> Subject: [docbook-apps] Trouble with tables, xsltproc
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having an awfully hard time trying to put a table in a document.
>
> It's in a <book>, inside a <appendix> and a <sect1> in that
> appendix, in between a <para>...</para> and a
> <itemizedlist>...</itemizedlist>... I moved it to a chapter
> in a <sect1> and between a <para> and the next...
> I even tried warpping it within a <para> tag pair itself.
>
> In all cases the XSLT processor (xsltproc) fails almost
> immediately while starting to write the fo file with this error:
>
> XPath error : Invalid context position
> xmlXPathCompiledEval: evaluation failed
>
> The error seems to suggest the table is existing within
> elements that it's not allowed to be within. But if I run
> xmllint on my xml file there seem to be no validity errors
> about tables.
>
> Even more curiously, the indentical table works fine inside a
> simpler document where I tested them out, inside a <article>.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks...
>
> -Alan
>
> Alan C. Oehler
> Sr. Technical Writer
> XenSource, Inc.
> Phone: 650.798.5900 x 240
>
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