I try to apply FOP 0.93 (the stable released version) on the file http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/fo/embedding.fo to get a PDF result and I get a ClassCastException when the DOM tree is built for an embedded SVG graphic: Jun 8, 2007 5:50:56 PM org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP SEVERE: Exception javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.batik.dom.GenericElement cannot be ca st to org.w3c.dom.svg.SVGSVGElement at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:168) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191) --------- javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.batik.dom.GenericElement cannot be ca st to org.w3c.dom.svg.SVGSVGElement at com.icl.saxon.IdentityTransformer.transform(IdentityTransformer.java:61) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191) Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.batik.dom.GenericElement cannot be cast to org.w3c.dom.svg.SVGSVGEle ment at org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SVGOMDocument.getRootElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.fo.extensions.svg.SVGElement.getDimension(SVGElement.java:107) at org.apache.fop.fo.flow.InstreamForeignObject.prepareIntrinsicSize(InstreamForeignObject.java:103) at org.apache.fop.fo.flow.InstreamForeignObject.getIntrinsicWidth(InstreamForeignObject.java:115) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.AbstractGraphicsLayoutManager.getInlineArea(AbstractGraphicsLayoutManager.jav a:129) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.AbstractGraphicsLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(AbstractGraphicsLayoutMana ger.java:238) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.LineLayoutManager.collectInlineKnuthElements(LineLayoutManager.java:658) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.LineLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(LineLayoutManager.java:593) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BlockStackingLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(BlockStackingLayoutManager.java:284) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BlockLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(BlockLayoutManager.java:113) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.FlowLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(FlowLayoutManager.java:106) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageSequenceLayoutManager$PageBreaker.getNextKnuthElements(PageSequenceLayoutManager .java:272) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.getNextBlockList(AbstractBreaker.java:554) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageSequenceLayoutManager$PageBreaker.getNextBlockList(PageSequenceLayoutManager.jav a:264) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.doLayout(AbstractBreaker.java:301) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.doLayout(AbstractBreaker.java:263) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageSequenceLayoutManager.activateLayout(PageSequenceLayoutManager.java:157) at org.apache.fop.area.AreaTreeHandler.endPageSequence(AreaTreeHandler.java:385) at org.apache.fop.fo.pagination.PageSequence.endOfNode(PageSequence.java:148) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder$MainFOHandler.endElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:378) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.endElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:194) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at com.icl.saxon.IdentityTransformer.transform(IdentityTransformer.java:59) ... 4 more --------- java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.batik.dom.GenericElement cannot be cast to org.w3c.dom.svg.SVGSVGElement at org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SVGOMDocument.getRootElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.fo.extensions.svg.SVGElement.getDimension(SVGElement.java:107) at org.apache.fop.fo.flow.InstreamForeignObject.prepareIntrinsicSize(InstreamForeignObject.java:103) at org.apache.fop.fo.flow.InstreamForeignObject.getIntrinsicWidth(InstreamForeignObject.java:115) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.AbstractGraphicsLayoutManager.getInlineArea(AbstractGraphicsLayoutManager.jav a:129) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.AbstractGraphicsLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(AbstractGraphicsLayoutMana ger.java:238) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.LineLayoutManager.collectInlineKnuthElements(LineLayoutManager.java:658) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.LineLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(LineLayoutManager.java:593) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BlockStackingLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(BlockStackingLayoutManager.java:284) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BlockLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(BlockLayoutManager.java:113) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.FlowLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements(FlowLayoutManager.java:106) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageSequenceLayoutManager$PageBreaker.getNextKnuthElements(PageSequenceLayoutManager .java:272) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.getNextBlockList(AbstractBreaker.java:554) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageSequenceLayoutManager$PageBreaker.getNextBlockList(PageSequenceLayoutManager.jav a:264) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.doLayout(AbstractBreaker.java:301) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.doLayout(AbstractBreaker.java:263) at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageSequenceLayoutManager.activateLayout(PageSequenceLayoutManager.java:157) at org.apache.fop.area.AreaTreeHandler.endPageSequence(AreaTreeHandler.java:385) at org.apache.fop.fo.pagination.PageSequence.endOfNode(PageSequence.java:148) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder$MainFOHandler.endElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:378) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.endElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:194) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at com.icl.saxon.IdentityTransformer.transform(IdentityTransformer.java:59) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191) I have Xerces-J 2.9.0 and Saxon 6.5 in the classpath of the command line which applies FOP to embedding.fo and I try to get a PDF result.
I should add that it is a valid FO document which is published on the Apache FOP website as an example of embedded SVG graphic.
I am hitting the same issue. Any update on this one?
resetting P2 open bugs to P3 pending further review
this does not happen anymore with 1.0, 1.1rc1 and trunk. in all cases the PDF is correctly generated.