Troubleshooting Tools
This page should provide an overview about tools useful for troubleshooting and tracking down problems FOP users may encounter. It is not about FOP itself.
Character encoding
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Tool |
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Comment |
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Unicode Description Utilities |
Command line program, use uniname <file>. Requires C compiler for installation. |
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Text encoding conversion: libiconv |
Command line program, use iconv -f <fromcode> -t <tocode> <file>. Use iconv -l to list available encoding names. Usually already installed on Linux. Part of CygWin. |
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Tool |
Location |
Comment |
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libxml2 |
Command line program, use xmllint <file>. Usually already installed on Linux. Binaries for Windows are available. Part of CygWin. |
XSLT
It often helps to run a different XSLT processor in order to track down XSLT problems, for various reasons:
The probelm may be caused by a defect in the XML parser or the XSLT processor in use. In particular, the XML parser and the XSLT processor bundled with Java 1.4 and later have shown a number of defects.
The alternate processor might provide a clearer error message or pinpoint the problem location more preciesely.
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Tool |
Location |
Comment |
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Saxon |
Free version: |
Requires Java |
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Xalan (latest release) |
Requires Java. Be careful to use the latest version rather than the one bundled with the JRE |
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libxslt |
Command line program, use xsltproc <stylesheet> <file>. Requires libxml2. Usually already installed on Linux. Binaries for Windows are available. Part of CygWin. |