Re: Can't display XML files correctly using XSLT when they're outside

[Berin Loritsch <bl...@apache.org>]

Mercier Xavier wrote:

> Hey ya, Cocooners!
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> First of all, a quick word about my current configuration...

The problem you are facing is one dealing with Servlets.  Servlets
and webapps are designed to be self-contained entities, therefore
everything has to be part of the same webapp--otherwise the Servlet
Engine is _supposed_ to deny you access.

If you can tell Tomcat that your webapp is installed in the
MatrixProject root, then Tomcat will treat that as a context
root--and everything should be happy again.

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> I'm working with the following softwares:
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> Microsoft Windows NT 4.00.1381 (NT 4)
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> Internet Explorer 5.50.4522.1800 (IE 5.5)
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> Sun java SDK 1.3
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> Apache 1.3.11
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> Tomcat 3.1
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> Cocoon 1.8
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> So that you can make sense of my files, here are the paths of the roots I'm
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> using:
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> - The tomcat root is C:\tomcat.
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> - The MatrixProject root is C:\tomcat\webapps\cocoon\servlets\MatrixProject
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> (notice that it's well under the tomcat root).
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> - The matrix root is
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> C:\InternetTechnologiesGroup\webroot\htdocs\itg\projects\matrix (this one is
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> completely independent of the tomcat root).
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> I installed Cocoon a few months ago, strictly following the steps shown by
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> the documentation. I've been working with Cocoon for 3 months now and I must
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> say that except for a few trifles, it's been working just fine. Especially,
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> I had put my XML files, along with the corresponding DTDs, entities and
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> style sheets, all properly organized in folders, in a subdirectory of my
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> tomcat "webapps/cocoon" directory. And it was perfect: when I tried to
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> access one of these XML files from my Matrix Project, calling for instance a
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> URL like http://localhost/cocoon/servlets/MatrixProject/xml/letter.xml, my
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> browser displayed brilliantly the corresponding HTML  version after
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> processing by XSLT. The HTML version displayed a table and a picture among
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> other things as I expected it (it's a very important piece of information
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> for what will follow).
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> Last week, I tried to move my work files. Not only under the tomcat
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> "webapps/cocoon" directory but even worse: outside of the root directory of
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> tomcat!!!  Lastly, as I'm sure you've guessed, I tried to move them inside
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> of the matrix root... After all, the Cocoon documentation never says it is a
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> forbidden thing, or does it? Of course, I made a few changes in some of my
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> configuration files, notably:
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> - in server.xml (a tomcat configuration file), which now contains:
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> <Context path="/matrix" 
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> docBase="C:\InternetTechnologiesGroup\webroot\htdocs\itg\projects\matrix" 
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>               debug="9" 
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>               reloadable="true" >
> </Context>
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> - in tomcat-apache.conf (another tomcat configuration file), which now
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> contains:
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> Alias /matrix
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> C:\InternetTechnologiesGroup\webroot\htdocs\itg\projects\matrix
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> <Directory
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> "C:\InternetTechnologiesGroup\webroot\htdocs\itg\projects\matrix">
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
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> </Directory>
> ApJServMount /matrix/servlet /matrix
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> <Location /matrix/WEB-INF/ >
>     AllowOverride None
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>     deny from all
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> </Location>
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> These changes being made, I tried to launch Apache and Tomcat and access the
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> URL http://localhost/matrix/xml/letter.xml. Then, something funny happened:
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> an HTML version of my XML file was indeed processed by XSLT but the result
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> displayed was limited only to the table without the text, as if the contents
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> of the XML nodes couldn't be read, and to the text that appears when the
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> picture can't be displayed in the browser.
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> So, obviously, I forgot something. Perhaps in the configuration files or
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> elsewhere. But what? And where?
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> Thanks in advance for your help :)
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> Xavier
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> (Galway, Ireland)
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