No need now, I've figured it out. My second post to this thread
described how I narrowed it down to the fact that I was using the
one-pass profiling method with /fo/profile-docbook.xsl.
If I simply do the profiling as a separate step and generate an
intermediate XML file to work on, it all works like it should.
So it seems that there might be a bug in the /fo/profile-docbook.xsl
file
-Alan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mauritz Jeanson [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 11:15 AM
> To: Alan C. Oehler;
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Trouble with tables, xsltproc
>
> > -----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
>
>
>
