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how to include another XSL file?

tak — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:04:03 GMT

I have some trouble to use alfresco WCM 2.0.I would like to make an XSL template including another XSL files,however I couldn't produce desired HTML file.What I wrote in XSL is like that.<xsl:include href="/menu_fragment.xsl" /> <!– (1) –>…<xsl:variable name="t" select="document('/aaa

Re: how to include another XSL file?

arielb — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:37:07 GMT

there were some issues with this which were addressed with WCM-399. if you're on svn HEAD, then this should be working. if not, it will be resolved in v2.0.1.

with the fix to 399, you can place the included template in either the data dictionary, or within the webapp. however, xsl includes within the webapp should be working fine in all version. if you're having issues, please turn up the debug levels and post the log output.

Re: how to include another XSL file?

tak — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:07:55 GMT

Thank you!

That is exactly what I met.

I would have checked zilla first… sorry.

Re: how to include another XSL file?

edgar — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:06:22 GMT

HI Ariel,

however, xsl includes within the webapp should be working fine in all version.

Can you maybe show me how to do this?

I have an XSL file in my web project. The AVM path to the file in my sandbox is:
V:\test–admin\HEAD\DATA\www\avm_webapps\ROOT\xsl\homepage_body.xsl

Now how do I include this file in my XSLT Template which is attached to my 'homepage' Web Form using an <xsl:include>?

Should I use ${alf.parent_path}?

I am currently running Alfresco 2.0 Community on Windows XP.

regards,

Edgar

Re: how to include another XSL file?

arielb — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:09:20 GMT

include takes webapp relative paths, so <xs:include href="/path/within/webapp.xsl"/> should work.

Re: how to include another XSL file?

edgar — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:21:30 GMT

Hi Ariel,

include takes webapp relative paths, so <xs:include href="/path/within/webapp.xsl"/> should work.

OK, cheers.

However it does not work for me.

In my "homepage_new_printable.xsl" I include another XSL like this:


 <xsl:include href="/xsl/homepage_body.xsl"/> 
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This included XSL I have placed in my Web Project. The AVM path is:


V:\test–admin\HEAD\DATA\www\avm_webapps\ROOT\xsl\homepage_body.xsl 
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However what I get when I preview the JSP file that is generated from my homepage_new_printable.xsl I get a message:

error regenerating homepage_new2-printable.jsp using homepage_new_printable.xsl: null‍

in the Web Client and the following message in the console:

C:\Alfresco\dummy.xsl; Line #0; Column #0; Had IO Exception with stylesheet file: /xsl/homepage_body.xsl
file:///C:/Alfresco/dummy.xsl; Line #0; Column #0; javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: ElemTemplateElement error: homepage_body
12:05:15,007 ERROR [ui.common.Utils] error regenerating homepage_new2-printable.jsp using homepage_new_printable.xsl: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.alfresco.web.forms.XSLTRenderingEngine.render(XSLTRenderingEngine.java:411)
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You stated:

ihowever, xsl includes within the webapp should be working fine in all version.

but it does not seem to be working for me on Alfresco Community 2.0?

regards,

Edgar

Re: how to include another XSL file?

tak — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:59:53 GMT

It does not work for me yet…

The same exception has occurred as edger.
I tried both alfresco community edition 2.0 and enterprise edition 2.0.1.

Do we have to satisfy some format or specification about included XSL?

FYI
document function in XSL works fine by relative path.

regards

Re: how to include another XSL file?

arielb — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:15:53 GMT

is your virtualization server up and running? this is necessary for xsl:includes to work. if it is, then the debugging information should be emitting messages as to which urls it's trying for to resolve the include. if you're still having troubles, could you attach more of the debugging output please?

Re: how to include another XSL file?

tak — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:37:02 GMT

I tried by output debugging log, but the flood of ehcache log froze the web browser so i cannot check how alfresco resolves uri.
Would you tell me which log4j logger should i turn to debug? (xform?)

is your virtualization server up and running? this is necessary for xsl:includes to work. if it is, then the debugging information should be emitting messages as to which urls it's trying for to resolve the include. if you're still having troubles, could you attach more of the debugging output please?

these are my test files.
I put included.xsl and included.xml to the root space of web projects and
I regiseter including xsd and xsl as Web Forms.

including xsd


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
      xmlns:sample="http://sample.org"
           targetNamespace="http://sample.org"
           elementFormDefault="qualified">
   
   <xs:element name="including">
     <xs:complexType>
        <xs:sequence>
           <xs:element name="title" type="xs:string" />
        </xs:sequence>
     </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
       
</xs:schema>
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including xsl


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
      xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
      xmlns:sample="http://sample.org"
      xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions"
      exclude-result-prefixes="xhtml xalan xsl fn">
  <xsl:output method="xml"  encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"
              doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
              doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
              omit-xml-declaration="yes"
              media-type="text/html"/>

  <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:include href="/included.xsl" /> 

  <xsl:template match="/">

<html>

<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="/sample:including/sample:title" /></title>
</head>

<body>
  <h1><xsl:value-of select="/sample:including/sample:title" /></h1>

  <xsl:variable name="t" select="document('/included.xml')"/>  
  <xsl:apply-templates select="$t/sample:menu" />

</body>
</html>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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included xsl


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
      xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
      xmlns:sample="http://sample.org"
      xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions"
      exclude-result-prefixes="xhtml xalan xsl sample fn">
  <xsl:output method="xml"  encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"
              doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
              doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
              omit-xml-declaration="yes"
              media-type="text/html"/>

  <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>

  <xsl:template match="sample:menu">

<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="sample:menuItem">
  <li>
    
       <xsl:value-of select="sample:itemUrl"/>
       <xsl:value-of select="sample:itemName"/>
  </li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>

  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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included xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sample:menu xmlns:sample="http://sample.org">

<sample:menuItem><sample:itemName>page1</sample:itemName>
  <sample:itemUrl>page1.html</sample:itemUrl>
</sample:menuItem>

<sample:menuItem>
  <sample:itemName>page2</sample:itemName><sample:itemUrl>/page2.html</sample:itemUrl>
</sample:menuItem>

<sample:menuItem>
 <sample:itemName>page3</sample:itemName><sample:itemUrl>/page3.html</sample:itemUrl>
</sample:menuItem>

</sample:menu>
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Re: how to include another XSL file?

kvc — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:59:45 GMT

Tak:

We'll look into this … our lead developer here in on holiday through July 4th and … if you are a customer or partner, please raise a support ticket and we can get one of our support engineers to look into in the meantime.

Kevin

Re: how to include another XSL file?

edgar — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:13:04 GMT

Hi,

I have got the <xsl:include> functionality working now in Alfresco 2.1R1 Community, but unfortunately only when running on Windows. We also run an Alfresco server on Linux and there the XSL includes do not work.

What I did was:

- Generic XSL code (<xsl:template>) in XSL includes in the Web Project's /xsl folder. E.g. /xsl/head.xsl.
- In my Web Form XSL template include such a file using:

<xsl:include href="/xsl/head.xsl" />‍

This works fine when running on Windows but when Alfresco is running on Linux I get this error when trying to save a content item based on this Web Form:


error regenerating rendition using page_home.xsl: javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: ElemTemplateElement error: head
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In Alfresco's log I see:


09:33:08,332 ERROR [web.forms.XSLTRenderingEngine] javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: ElemTemplateElement error: head
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2007/07/13 09:33:08 | 09:33:08,351 ERROR [ui.common.Utils] error regenerating rendition using page_content.xsl: javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: ElemTemplateElement error: head
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2007/07/13 09:33:08 | org.alfresco.web.forms.RenderingEngine$RenderingException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: ElemTemplateElement error: head
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2007/07/13 09:33:08 |    at org.alfresco.web.forms.XSLTRenderingEngine.render(XSLTRenderingEngine.java:484)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2007/07/13 09:33:08 |    at org.alfresco.web.forms.XSLTRenderingEngine.render(XSLTRenderingEngine.java:378)

…
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Any ideas? I guess it has something to do with the fact that the CIFS mount folder is different on Linux (/media/alfresco/cifs/v) than it is on Windows?

PS: our Virtualization Server runs just fine on Linux.
PPS: we run our CIFS Samba mount on a different port than the default (because we already had another Samba mount on the machine).

Another thing: I would much prefer to store the XSL include files in the Data Dictionary instead of in my Web Project, since that it where they belong. However I can only access an XSL include file when I store it in the _same_ folder as the Web Form itself. That is no use to me, since the purpose of these XSL include files is that they can be reused by multiple Web Forms! Or am I missing something?

cheers,

Edgar

Re: how to include another XSL file?

kvc — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:22:22 GMT

Edgar:

Can u please file a bug? We'll look into getting addressed ASAP.

Kevin

Re: how to include another XSL file?

edgar — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:25:50 GMT

Can u please file a bug? We'll look into getting addressed ASAP.

I created this issue:
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/WCM-659

Re: how to include another XSL file?

randomman — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:48:28 GMT

On a slightly different subject, is it possible to include a jsp instead?

I notice that with XSDs you can include a JSP to dynamically create a schema (e.g. to populate a web form select box as per the sample site).

I was wondering if you could include a JSP at the rendition point of the web form process?

I was experimenting with ways to get web form data into a database and this idea came to me. Am I stupid to even attempt this? :wink:

Re: how to include another XSL file?

shchavla — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:34:12 GMT

Hello Skilled

I've tried to include another xslt from subspace of webform

<xsl:include href="xsl/included.xsl"/>‍

and, got the following error


org.alfresco.web.forms.RenderingEngine$RenderingException: errors encountered du
ring transformation: ‍‍‍

Can u tell me the way how to handle this problem?
it is not so handy to keep all of included xslt in same space.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
Error:


15:38:47,343 ERROR [ui.common.Utils] Error generating rendition using including.
xsl: errors encountered during transformation:
unable to resolve href xsl/included.xsl

org.alfresco.web.forms.RenderingEngine$RenderingException: errors encountered du
ring transformation:
unable to resolve href xsl/included.xsl

        at org.alfresco.web.forms.XSLTRenderingEngine.render(XSLTRenderingEngine
.java:510)
        at org.alfresco.web.forms.XSLTRenderingEngine.render(XSLTRenderingEngine
.java:379)
        at org.alfresco.web.forms.RenderingEngineTemplateImpl.render(RenderingEn
gineTemplateImpl.java:306)
        at org.alfresco.web.forms.RenderingEngineTemplateImpl.render(RenderingEn
gineTemplateImpl.java:279)
        at org.alfresco.web.bean.wcm.CreateWebContentWizard.saveContent(CreateWe
bContentWizard.java:473)
        at org.alfresco.web.bean.wcm.CreateWebContentWizard.next(CreateWebConten
tWizard.java:229)
        at org.alfresco.web.bean.wizard.WizardManager.next(WizardManager.java:49
8)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.myfaces.el.MethodBindingImpl.invoke(MethodBindingImpl.java
:132)
        at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(Actio
nListenerImpl.java:61)
        at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:109)
        at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._broadcastForPhase(UIViewRoot.java:9
7)
        at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:1
71)
        at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationExecutor.execute(Invoke
ApplicationExecutor.java:32)
        at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl
.java:95)
        at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java
:70)
        at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:139)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:269)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:188)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationFilter.doFilter(Authentica
tionFilter.java:81)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:188)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperV
alve.java:210)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextV
alve.java:174)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.j
ava:127)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.j
ava:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineVal
ve.java:108)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.jav
a:151)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java
:870)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.p
rocessConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpo
int.java:528)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFol
lowerWorkerThread.java:81)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadP
ool.java:685)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

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Re: how to include another XSL file?

stephenr85 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:00:28 GMT

I am having a similar problem. When I include a file as shown below in my xsl, I get that href /master/forms/include/content-choices.xsl could not be resolved. I've have double and triple checked the paths, and the files are in the correct place.

<xsl:include href="/master/forms/include/content-choices.xsl"/>

The virtualization server is running, and I'm having no problems including xsd's within the Web App from a Web Form schema, like below:

<xs:include schemaLocation="/master/forms/include/content-choices.xsd"/>

Re: how to include another XSL file?

roxanne — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:13:27 GMT

i'm also getting this error:

unable to resolve href /included.xsl

any solution any1>?????

Re: how to include another XSL file?

roxanne — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:00:54 GMT

hi tak

i tried using ur included-including example.

it doesnt work for me

i get this error:

Error generating rendition using including.xsl: errors encountered creating tranformer …
unable to resolve href \included.xsl

please let me know in case u have any solution