XSL:FO transformation in Altova XMLSpy

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I mapped Altova XMLSpy to Apache FOP for XSL:FO tranformation(Tools->Options->XSL->Selected fop.bat),then I wrote a simple HelloWorld output as below and tried to tranform the XSL:FO to a PDF output,But XMLSpy threw this error " Temporary file could not be created!Access is denied" , Can someone tell me why I get this error and how to resolve it?

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
            <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

              <fo:layout-master-set>
                <fo:simple-page-master master-name="hello"
                page-height="11in"  page-width="8.5in" margin-top="1in" 
                margin-bottom="1in" margin-left="1in" margin-right="1in">
                  <fo:region-body margin-top="1in" margin-bottom=".5in"/>
                </fo:simple-page-master>
              </fo:layout-master-set>

              <fo:page-sequence master-reference="hello">
                <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                  <fo:block font-size="18pt" text-align="center" font-weight="bold">
                    Hello World!
                  </fo:block>
                </fo:flow>
              </fo:page-sequence>

            </fo:root>

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '13 at 22:49

I copy/pasted some html into a new, unsaved Xmlspy html document. I then switched from Text view to Browser view. Xmlspy showed an error "temporary file could not be created", "access denied". When I ran procmon, it turns out that Xmlspy was trying to create the file as "C:\Program Files (x86)\Altova\XMLSpy2013\tmp0000.html". As I am running Windows 8, all of the files and directories under "C:\Program files (x86)" require elevated privileges to be created / updated / deleted.

It is an Xmlspy defect. They need to create their temp files in the correct location. I guess if you really needed it to work, you could run Xmlspy with elevated privileges. I don't need it that badly.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '12 at 06:46

The Altova site mentions:

This is a problem with IE. When you open an XML file straight from an e-mail the file is saved in a temporary folder. XMLSpy® 2012 can handle this and successfully save and therefore show an XML file. IE on the other hand cannot successfully do this and gives an "Access Denied" message. Saving the file first will enable IE to show it correctly.

Could this be your problem? It definitely is something related to Altova XMLSpy, not to your specific XML or XSL.

XSL:FO transformation in Altova XMLSpy

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