iwov_xslt

Hello

I am trying to transform an XML file that we receive from a 3rd party agency with an XSL file that we've built ourselves.

I'm getting this error message:

XSL Warning: Fatal Error at (file d:\system\iw-home/tmp/cci/tst_iwov_xslt_xml_7260, line 2, column 17): The XML or Text declaration must start at line/column 1/1
XSL Error: Could not parse d:\system\iw-home/tmp/cci/tst_iwov_xslt_xml_7260 document!

So, I decided to try out the example thats specified in the documentation for <iwov_xslt>

tpl:

<iwov_xslt xsl_file='demo.xsl'>
<wow>Hello</wow>
</iwov_xslt>

xsl:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="wow">
<fun><xsl:value-of select="."/></fun>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Which works. I moved the xml into a separate file - which still worked.

I modified the xml so it looked like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<wow>Hello</wow>

and I got the following error:

iwov_xslt error:
XalanError:
XSL Warning: Fatal Error at (file d:\system\iw-home/tmp/cci/tst_iwov_xslt_xml_3652, line 2, column 17): The XML or Text declaration must start at line/column 1/1
XSL Error: Could not parse d:\system\iw-home/tmp/cci/tst_iwov_xslt_xml_3652 document!
XSL Warning: Unknown Exception

So, my question is, does Xalan not expect the xml declaration?

This might be a problem, because the XML files that we receive are supposed to be imported into Teamsite as-is i.e. without any filtering.

Any clues?

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Frederik

Hey,

couple of suggestions ;-)
1) register... IMHO that gives the impression like you are serious about giving and taking advice out of this forum
2) should have been posted in the templating forum

and then on topic ...

I believe that if you will add the xml declaration, you must make sure that there's no whitespace before it... like so:

[HTML]<?xml version="1.0"?>
Hello
[/HTML]
or
[HTML]
[/HTML]

Make sure there's no whitespace between the iwov_xslt tag and the xml content that starts with the declaration.

Oh, and btw, I encountered rather subtle and tricky charset encoding issues when using the iwov_xslt tag (on anything that isn't regular latin1 / ISO 8859-1 coded). IMO it was written for TS 5.5.2 and broke when TS 6.x switched to a more recent perl (5.8.2) that handles string encoding differently. I had a lenghtly discussion with Support about that, but the (perceived) lack of competence on their part got me so frustrated that it convinced me to close that ticket and patch iwov_xslt for my use (strictly UTF8). I made some posts on that topic in the forum that you can find with Search. Patch ID 1699 for TS6.5 reports a fix for encoding problems with iwov_xslt. Haven't reviewed that. What's your TS version anyway?

--F.

Millie

Doh!
Yes, had I taken the effort to 'scroll' down, I would have noticed the 'Topic' section and submitted my post accordingly. Live and learn, hey!

I'm on Teamsite 6.5, windows (maybe 2003)

Register? I thought I already had! I have to login to post etc. I don't recall getting any additional instructions to perform having logged in. I may have missed something, I suppose. I did wonder why my name was being marked as 'Guest'!

BTW, your suggestion worked. Thinking about it the, XML parser would have found a text-node right at the beginning of the document - before the xml-declaration - which is illegal.

Thanks very much!