docbook-apps

Hi all,

I'm having an awfully hard time trying to put a table in a document.

It's in a <book>, inside a <appendix> and a <sect1> in that appendix, in
between a <para>...</para> and a <itemizedlist>...</itemizedlist>... I
moved it to a chapter in a <sect1> and between a <para> and the next...
I even tried warpping it within a <para> tag pair itself.

In all cases the XSLT processor (xsltproc) fails almost immediately
while starting to write the fo file with this error:

XPath error : Invalid context position
xmlXPathCompiledEval: evaluation failed

The error seems to suggest the table is existing within elements that
it's not allowed to be within. But if I run xmllint on my xml file there
seem to be no validity errors about tables.

Even more curiously, the indentical table works fine inside a simpler
document where I tested them out, inside a

.

Any clues?

Thanks...

-Alan

Alan C. Oehler
Sr. Technical Writer
XenSource, Inc.
Phone: 650.798.5900 x 240

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan C. Oehler
>
> I'm having an awfully hard time trying to put a table in a document.
>
> It's in a <book>, inside a <appendix> and a <sect1> in that
> appendix, in
> between a <para>...</para> and a <itemizedlist>...</itemizedlist>... I
> moved it to a chapter in a <sect1> and between a <para> and
> the next...
> I even tried warpping it within a <para> tag pair itself.
>
> In all cases the XSLT processor (xsltproc) fails almost immediately
> while starting to write the fo file with this error:
>
> XPath error : Invalid context position
> xmlXPathCompiledEval: evaluation failed


You need to provide some more information in order to make it possible to
reproduce the problem. The most important piece of information is a minimal
but complete sample document. It would also be interesting to know if the
problem occurs with stock DocBook XSL (version?) or only with a
customization layer.

/MJ