Re: [xproc-dev] <none>

Hello David, Christophe,

Thanks for your emails. Yes, I am using the ${ask()} variable which is
supposed to prompt the user with a dialog box to choose a file. I
originally posted the issue on the Oxygen support forum and was told that
Oxygen doesn't support having the source passed as an ask variable (in the
source tab). It does however support the ask variable in as a parameter (in
the parameter tab) but I'm not sure how  pass that parameter to the xproc
as the <p:input port="source"/> . Radu recommended I contact this mailing
list for additional help. Link below is the thread from the Oxygen Forum
site  where you can see screenshots of the issue:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic21435.html

Thanks,
Ahmed

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 2:13 AM David Cramer <david@thingbag.net> wrote:

> Hi Ahmed,
>
> You might also check the Oxygen support forums and/or documentation. Your
> issue does seem to be with the way you're invoking the pipeline. I believe
> that in an Oxygen transformation scenario using ${ask()} is meant to cause
> Oxygen to prompt the user for input, in this case the url of the source
> file, probably via a file chooser dialog. Perhaps somehow when prompted you
> provided the path to a directory instead of to a source file?
>
> If you're really trying to have Oxygen get a value from an environment
> variable, I think using ${env(VAR_NAME)} in the transform scenario does
> that, but definitely check the Oxygen docs/support forums/support for
> details.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
> On 5/19/20 12:24 PM, Christophe Marchand wrote:
>
> As you can see in the error message :
>
>    - Error is raised by XProc engine, i.e. Calabash.
>    - Calabash received "C:\Users\Ali\ExcelToXML\${ask('message',url)}" as
>    input document URL, which is not a valid URL, and probably isn't a valid
>    file on your file system.
>
> Try to run Calabash directly from command line, using Calabash help :
> http://xmlcalabash.com/docs/
>
> java com.xmlcalabash.drivers.Main xpl/your-pipeline.xpl -i
> source=C:\Users\Ali\ExcelToXML\your-file.xml
>
> Hth,
> Christophe
> Le 11/05/2020 à 17:37, Ahmed Abdulhadi a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm fairly new to XProc, and I am attempting to run a XProc where I run
> multiple stylesheet passes. As seen below:
>
>
>> <p:declare-step xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc" xmlns:c="
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step" version="1.0"> <p:input port="source"/>
>> <p:input port="parameters" kind="parameter"/> <p:output port="result"/> <
>> p:xslt name="firstPass"> <p:input port="stylesheet"> <p:document href=
>> "FirstPass.xsl"/> </p:input> </p:xslt> <p:xslt> <p:input port=
>> "stylesheet"> <p:document href="SecondPass.xsl"/> </p:input> </p:xslt> <
>> p:xslt> <p:input port="stylesheet"> <p:document href="ThirdPass.xsl"/> </
>> p:input> </p:xslt> </p:declare-step>
>
>
> I'm running this through an Oxygen XML Editor Scenario that using the
> Calabash engine. I'm attempting to use an environmental variable in
> Oxygen for the source input. I want the user to specify the XML document
> saved on a file disk, and load that as the source:
> [image: image.png]
>
> However, I receive the following error below:
>
>> err:XD0011 : XProc error err:XD0011 It is a dynamic error if the
>> resource referenced by a p:document element does not exist, cannot be
>> accessed, or is not a well-formed XML document.
>> C:\Users\Ali\ExceltoXML\${ask('message', url)} (The system cannot find
>> the file specified)
>
>
> I posted this specific question on the Oxygen forum site. I was informed
> that I can't use the ask variable in the input source but I could use it in
> the parameters.
>
> How do I pass the source as a dynamic variable or the source as a
> parameter?
>
> Thanks,
> Ahmed
>
>