Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook chunk.xsl resolves path to docbook.xsl incorrectly with Xalan (with Windows, but not with *nix)

Hello,

Your suggested solution solved the problem.  Xalan didn't like the paths on Windows.

As I am using Ant to compile, using the standard <makeurl> task before filtering and invoking the XSLT customization layer file was all I needed to do.

Thanks,
Christopher

On 7 November 2012 20:49, Bob Stayton <> wrote:

It is possible that Xalan is confused by the Windows pathname 
syntax:

 

<xsl:import 
href="">

 

I would try:

 

<xsl:import 
href="">

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


From: Christopher BROWN 

Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 8:42 AM

To: DocBook Apps list 

Subject: [docbook-apps] DocBook chunk.xsl resolves path to 
docbook.xsl incorrectly with Xalan (with Windows, but not with 
*nix)

Hello, 

I'm observing a strange problem, where I use the "html/chunk.xsl" 
stylesheet via Ant and the <xslt> task.  It works under Linux (Ubuntu 
12.04) and Mac OS X 10.8, but not under Windows.  The problem seems to be 
that (as expected) under *nix, the "chunk.xsl" imports the "docbook.xsl" 
stylesheet (in the same directory, because there's no directory in the XSLT, 
which is correct), but under Windows it resolves against the "basedir" of Ant 
and not the "basedir" of the XSLT task.

I'm using:

- DocBook HTML stylesheets 1.76.1

- Ant 1.8.4

- Java 6.0 u37

- Xalan 2.7.1

Here's the relevant bit of my "build.xml" file (${vbuild} is an absolute 
path):

        <xslt 
basedir="${vbuild}/docbook/src/${l10n}" 
style="${vbuild}/docbook/custom/${l10n}/custom-html.xsl"

              
destdir="${vbuild}/docbook/out/${l10n}" extension=".html"

              includes="*.xml">

            <classpath 
refid="xalan.classpath"/>

        </xslt>

"xalan.classpath" includes: resolver.jar, serializer.jar, xalan.jar, 
xercesImpl.jar

Here's the output from Ant:

     [xslt] Transforming into 
c:\java\build\temp\ProjectName\docbook\out\en

     [xslt] Processing 
c:\java\build\temp\ProjectName\docbook\src\en\manual.xml to 
c:\java\build\temp\ProjectName\docbook\out\en\manual.html

     [xslt] Loading stylesheet 
c:\java\build\temp\ProjectName\docbook\custom\en\custom-html.xsl

     [xslt] 
c:\java\build\temp\ProjectName\docbook-xsl-1.76.1\html\chunk.xsl:25:33: Error! 
Had IO Exception with stylesheet file: docbook.xsl Cause: 
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\java\projects\ProjectName\docbook.xsl (The 
system cannot find the file specified)

     [xslt] 
c:\java\build\temp\ProjectName\docbook-xsl-1.76.1\html\chunk.xsl:32:38: Error! 
Had IO Exception with stylesheet file: chunk-common.xsl Cause: 
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\java\projects\ProjectName\chunk-common.xsl 
(The system cannot find the file specified)

     [xslt] 
c:\java\build\temp\ProjectName\docbook-xsl-1.76.1\html\chunk.xsl:50:37: Error! 
Had IO Exception with stylesheet file: chunk-code.xsl Cause: 
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\java\projects\viewshell\chunk-code.xsl (The 
system cannot find the file specified)

Like I say, it works under *nix but not under Windows.  I can't see 
what needs configuring so that under Windows, the "chunk.xsl" looks in the same 
directory as itself for "docbook.xsl".  I've not modified the standard 
docbook files.

My "custom-html.xsl" customization layer contains this import on *nix 
(first line) and Windows (second line) :

 

 <xsl:import 
href="">

 <xsl:import 
href="">

...the path is hard-coded into this file as part of the build process (ant 
copy, filtering on).  On all platforms, "custom-html.xsl" finds 
"chunk.xsl", but on Windows, "chunk.xsl" can't find "docbook.xsl".

Thanks,
Christopher