Forum OpenACS Q&A: Problems with XML support for AOLserver

1: Problems with XML support for AOLserver

Posted by Sergio Fortuna on 03/22/02 11:47 AM

Hi all,
I'm trying to install OpenACS 4.5, I've been using the previous
version successfully for the last 6 months and I'm quite excited to
see what the Beta version has to offer.

My first installation error was the creation of users in postgres had
to have create permissions for db and users, fixed that and restarted
the aol server the second error was:
"Your ns_xml doesn't support XML comments correctly...
Your ns_xml doesn't correctly return the root XML node..."

Tried to ignore this error and went ahead with the instalation, the
data model was installed with no errors but had to refresh the page
to see the next button to run the next stage of the instalation.
Installing the Core Services I was faced with a blank page. I did not
get any errors on the error log but can't seem to go onto the next
stage of creating an administration user.

I suppose that I need to fix the errors above first, could anyone
help me with it?

Many thanks
Sergio

2: Response to Problems with XML support for AOLserver (response to 1)

Posted by Don Baccus on 03/22/02 03:02 PM

You need to update to the latest libxml on your system.

But I'm not sure that's the problem ... were there any errors in the log file? After it loads the core datamodel it does read the package info files. This can take a few minutes, and of course this is where the XML parse comes into play. It's possible you just didn't wait long enough. It's also possible that the old XML support on your system caused this code to die - in which case I'd expect an error message in your log file.

3: Response to Problems with XML support for AOLserver (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 03/22/02 11:47 PM

Sergio, you need to use nsxml 1.4 available at http://acs-misc.sourceforge.net to get rid of the "Your ns_xml doesn't support XML comments correctly" message.