For my project, I would like to test XEP and AH Formatter. I like FOP but in some cases it really fails (floats, crop marks, pdf/x standards, etc.) and I need to know some alternatives.
XEP
With XEP I am very close. I have copied all jars into $EXIST_HOME/lib/user and changed the adapter in $EXIST_HOME/conf.xml. Besides, I have uploaded the xep.xml config file into the database.
Testing XQuery:
xquery version "3.0";
declare namespace fo = "http://46.28.111.241:8081/exist/db/apps/bunny/modules/fop";
let $config := doc('/db/apps/bunny/test/xep.xml')
let $fo := doc('/db/apps/bunny/data/test.fo')
let $pdf := xslfo:render($fo, "application/pdf", (), $config)
return response:stream-binary($pdf, "application/pdf", "output.pdf")
It throws:
exerr:ERROR org.exist.dom.persistent.NodeProxy cannot be cast to org.w3c.dom.Node [at line 7, column 13]
AH Formatter
With AH Formatter, I am lost at the moment. It does not include any specific jar file I could copy into $EXIST_HOME/lib/user, or at least it does not seem so. On AH site there is a note about using AH Formatter on a linux machine but this remark does not help in the whole process of including that into eXist.
The installation includes several folders which are all mentioned in the run.sh file, it is much more fragmented app than XEP.
I am testing on Ubuntu Server 14.04 and eXist-db RC01.
