[Xsltforms-support] Using plain XForms with XSLTForms into eXist-db

[William V. <wve...@vi...>]

Hi Lists,

This was reported previously by Ingrid Falk in the XSLTForms-support list, with no satisfactory solution then: http://sourceforge.net/p/xsltforms/mailman/message/30743626/

When you create a XForms as an XML document (not an XQuery) stored in an eXist-db collection, you cannot simply access it by its URL. You get this message when executing the XSLT transformation on the server:

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HTTP ERROR 400

Problem accessing /exist/rest/db/sandbox/repeat.xml. Reason:

    Error while serializing XML: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\bin\eXist-db\config.xsl (El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado)
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Aprox. translation for "El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado" is "System can't find the specified file" in Windows, or "Not such file or directory" in Linux

I must admit that I solved it copying CONFIG.XSL from the XSTForms directory to the $EXIST_HOME path on the server.

Today I discovered than changing from Saxon to Xalan as XSLT engine, the transformation works fine again.

By default, eXist-db 2.0 comes with the following configuration in conf.xml:

     <transformer class="net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl">

If you change to:

    <transformer class=" org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl">

XForms with XSLTForms server side work fine again.

The problem also affects XForms with external css stylesheets using <link rel= .... element. Saxon fails to do the transformation with the same error above.

I think the problem is to due to Saxon being unable to resolve relative URLs in XSLT stylesheets to the proper document inside eXist-db collections.

For people trying to use XSLTForms into eXist-db is a good idea to switch to Xalan instead of Saxon, until somebody suggest a solution.

Regards,


- BIll