Re: [xmlroff] Probably newbie problem

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Misty Stanley-Jones <mi...@bo...> writes:
> Hi all,

Welcome to the xmlroff list.

> I have just installed xmlroff from source.  I have a set of docbook files that 

From xmlroff 0.3.3 or from CVS?

> I am able to generate HTML from, with xsltproc.  Now I would like to create a 
> PDF of them.  When I run the following command:
>
> xmlroff -o index.pdf 
> index.docbook /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current/eclipse/eclipse.xsl
>
> I get the output from the stylesheet, and then at the very end I get the 
> following error:
>
> (process:16005): libfo-CRITICAL **: file result-to-fo.c: line 973 
> (fo_xml_doc_to_fo_and_area_trees): assertion `res->children != NULL' failed
> libfo-Message: Error: No area tree present
>
> I am at a loss what to do.  Please help me debug this.

You haven't given much to go on.

Can you email me 'index.docbook' and 'eclipse.xsl' (or a pointer to
where to get eclipse.xsl)?

Have you tried running the libfo-compat.xsl stylesheet to remove many
things that xmlroff would find to be problematic?

Regards,


Tony.