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Debugging XML Report Definitions
Rather than opening each report and manually making the change in Reports Builder,
you can run RWCONVERTER once and make the same change to a large number of
reports at once.
The following example applies two XML report definitions, translate.xml and
customize.xml, to three RDF files, INVEN1.RDF, INVEN2.RDF, and MANU.RDF, and
saves the revised definitions to new files, INVEN1_NEW.RDF, INVEN2_NEW.RDF, and
MANU_NEW.RDF.
rwconverter username/password@my_db
stype=rdffile
source="(inven1.rdf, inven2.rdf, manu.rdf)"
dtype=rdffile
dest="(inven1_new.rdf, inven2_new.rdf, manu_new.rdf)"
customize="(d:\apps\trans\translate.xml,d:\apps\custom\customize.xml)"
batch=yes
16.5 Debugging XML Report Definitions
The following features are available to help you debug your XML report files:
■ XML Parser Error Messages
■ Tracing Options
■ rwbuilder
■ Writing XML to a File for Debugging
These features are discussed in the following sections.
16.5.1 XML Parser Error Messages
16.5.2 Tracing Options
Note: In this example, the CUSTOMIZE command entry
demonstrates a directory path to files stored on a Windows
platform. For UNIX, use that platform's standard for specifying
directory paths (i.e., forward slashes instead of backward).
The XML parser is part of Oracle's XML Development Kit (XDK), which is delivered
with the core Oracle Database release. The XML parser is a Java package that checks
the validity of XML syntax. The JAR files that contain the XML parser are
automatically set up on install and are available to Oracle Reports.
The XML parser catches most syntax errors and displays an error message. The error
message contains the line number in the XML where the error occurred as well as a
brief description of the problem.
For more information on the XML parser, see the Oracle Technology Network,
(http://otn.oracle.com). Search for XML parser or XDK. Information is also
available in the documentation that came with your Oracle Database.
When testing your XML report definition, it can be useful to run your report along
with additional options to create a trace file. For example:
RWRUN /@
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