Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: No frames around tables - how to activate Saxonextensions for Norman Walsh's XSL 1.48?

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:04:54PM +0100, dbook@centrum.cz wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I use PassiveTex for generating PDF from DocBook. 
> Currently I use full Saxon 6.5 with JDK 1.3.1_01.
> I have this problems:
>  
> 1.) Tables, that hasn't specified sizes of columns are displayed 
> incorretly - I solved it by specifying size for every column.
>  
> 2.) Tables are without frames 
>  
> I have read somewhere, that parameters "tablecolumns.extension" 
> and "use.extensions" solve this problems. So I set it to "1", but 
> now Saxon generate this message: 
>  
> >No adjustColumnWidths function available.
> >Processing terminated by xsl:message at line 183
>  
> It seems, that I must set path to .jar archive with extensions 
> for my verion of Saxon (6.5). So I set PATH=.....\xsl-1.48
> \extensions, where "saxon65.jar" is located, but it doesn't work.
>  
> How must be path to SAXON65.JAR set?
> And one question to end - can I use extensions with Instant Saxon?
> If you have some experiences with this problems, please help me.

You are close.  The environment variable is CLASSPATH,
not PATH, and its needs to include the jar filename, not
just the directory that contains it:

CLASSPATH=...\docbook-xsl-1.48\extensions\saxon65.jar

If you set this in the Windows environment, then it
should work with Instant Saxon too.


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