Hi Eric,

Thanks for your reply. I'm hopeful now that it's really me and not the AA. The AA looks pretty self-explaining, though, and I can't find any hints as to where I'm going wrong in the documentation. I can't seem to make it work.

I just created a simple, valid XML file and an XSLT with nothing more in it than an identity transform. In EditiX, I can apply the stylesheet just fine.

In my workflow, however, the AA always throws an Auto Error: 'Could not apply stylesheet: Premature end of file.'

I load the XML from source and save the result to source. The error even makes sense to some extent because upon checking the source file is now indeed empty. I've no idea though why that happens.

Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Below are my sample files.

Thanks,

Stephan

[edit] I just discovered that the AA works as expected when I load from source and save to target. However, I want to modify the source file prior to segmentation, just like in the sample workflow provided in the documentation--and eventually reverse part of the modification in the target file post-translation via another XSLT.

XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Document>

<Content>Blahblah <br/> blah <br></br> More blah
</Content>

</Document>

XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="www.w3.org/.../Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
            <xsl:copy>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
            </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

To wrap this up, SDL have meanwhile confirmed that--and I quote--'This Auto Action sample does not allow a source-source modification as it is does not have sufficient logic built in.'

They have provided me with a modified version of the AA though that allows a target-source transformation. So before anything else in the workflow I now copy source to target, apply the XSLT to the target file and save that to source. And it works like a charm.

Caterina Lazzarini, I was so snowed under I never even said thank you before the ticket was closed. Thank you!

Stephan