Getting started FOP question

["Kilmer, Erich" <Er...@mmt.bellhowell.com>]

A while back I was playing with Cocoon1 and got it working. I was able to
convert XML input to PDF output (via an XSL) on the fly in a browser.
Recently, I was using Stylus Studio to build an XSL with FO tags and then
rendered it into PDF (inside Stylus). At this point I realized maybe I do
not need Cocoon1 to do this all I need is FOP. This would probably be better
because Cocoon1 requires changes to my apps server jar file (orion.jar) in
order to work. 
So I am trying to get FOP to work now. I have made my own version of the
FOPServlet and added it to Orion. Then I added fop.jar, batik.jar, xalan and
xerces jars to the <orion>/lib dir.

One thing, my XML file references my XSL file (which contains XSL/FO tags
and XPATH).

Question:  Is this OK to do? 

Most of the FO examples only use the FO tags.
I am getting this error in my browser window:

500 Internal Server Error
org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: The root element is required in a
well-formed document.
	at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:429)
	at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.run(Driver.java:508)
	at
com.bellhowell.eroute.report.web.PDFGenerator.renderFO(PDFGenerator.java:72)
	at
com.bellhowell.eroute.report.web.PDFGenerator.service(PDFGenerator.java:45)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:336)
--------
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The root element is required in a well-formed
document. 
at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError(XMLParser.java:1056) 
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.reportFatalXMLError(XMLDocume
ntScanner.java:626) 
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$XMLDeclDispatcher.endOfInput(
XMLDocumentScanner.java:842) 
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.endOfInput(XMLDocumentScanner
.java:418) 
at
org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.sendEndOfInputNotifications
(XMLValidator.java:582) 
at
org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultEntityHandler.changeReaders(DefaultEntityHa
ndler.java:1026) 
at
org.apache.xerces.readers.XMLEntityReader.changeReaders(XMLEntityReader.java
:168) 
at org.apache.xerces.readers.UTF8Reader.changeReaders(UTF8Reader.java:182) 
at org.apache.xerces.readers.UTF8Reader.lookingAtChar(UTF8Reader.java:197) 
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$XMLDeclDispatcher.dispatch(XM
LDocumentScanner.java:742) 
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.
java:381) 
at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:948) 
at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:424) 
at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.run(Driver.java:508) 
at
com.bellhowell.eroute.report.web.PDFGenerator.renderFO(PDFGenerator.java:72)

at
com.bellhowell.eroute.report.web.PDFGenerator.service(PDFGenerator.java:45) 
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:336) 

Any ideas what could cause this?
Thanks!

Erich Kilmer




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