2009/08/18 - Apache AxKit has been retired.

On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 15:26 Europe/London,  
siglun [at] gungner.lub.lu.se wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
>> This may be a dumb question, but if this stuff is going in httpd.conf,
>> did you restart your server?
>
> It is no dumb question! That is things we all forget (or at least I do
> that kind of misstakes all the time). But as a matter of fact I did  
> this
> time.
>
>> Earlier on in the log AxKit should tell you exactly how it intends to
>> process the XML (with lines containing: Module::Name(stylesheet)), so
>> you can see right there if it got the right info to pull out your
>> module and it's stylesheet (NULL).
>
> It seems that something is missing in my configuration there. It says
> things like
>
> [Sat Nov  2 16:23:29 2002] [warn] [client 192.168.2.1] [AxKit] styles:
>      
Apache::AxKit::Language::LibXSLT(/SigfridLundberg/xml-style-library/ 
> tei_to_roff.xsl)
> [Sat Nov  2 16:23:29 2002] [warn] [client 192.168.2.1] [AxKit] Style
>	Provider Override: Apache::AxKit::Provider::File
> [Sat Nov  2 16:23:29 2002] [warn] [client 192.168.2.1] [AxKit] [uri]	
> File
>	Provider looking up uri  
> /SigfridLundberg/xml-style-library/tei_to_roff.xsl
> [Sat Nov  2 16:23:29 2002] [warn] [client 192.168.2.1] [AxKit] [uri]	
> File
>	Provider set filename to   
> /home/siglun/WWW/xml-style-library/tei_to_roff.xsl
> [Sat Nov  2 16:23:29 2002] [warn] [client 192.168.2.1] [AxKit] about to
>	execute: Apache::AxKit::Language::LibXSLT::handler
>
> It does know what this produces (application/x-troff-ms), but it seems
> that it doesn't understand that I want it to go another round of
> transformation (to postscript). It doesn't recognize my module at all.

Hmm. Try sticking a + in front of the module name. Others have reported  
this helps or fixes things for them:

AxAddStyleMap application/x-troff-ms +Apache::AxKit::Language::TroffMs


> My choice of style sheet here (NULL) might not be as good as one could
> make it, the troff macro package could be regarded as a style sheet for
> transforming troff source into postscript. Thus I should
> eventually generalize it.

I don't know much about troff, but yeah it's always good to generalise.

Matt.