DITA Open Toolkit error: java.lang.StackOverflowError

Question

I am using the DITA Open Toolkit to transform XML content to have different tag names. But one of my XML documents is not transforming...

BUILD FAILED
C:\DITA-OT\build.xml:55: The following error occurred while executing this line:

C:\DITA-OT\build.xml:86: The following error occurred while executing this line:

java.lang.StackOverflowError

This error happens before processing is finished. So only the first 3/4 transforms. If I remove 1/4 of the content, the transform is able to finish. (I can remove any part, the more I remove the further in the document the transform gets so I do not think its invalid tags or anything like that).

Do I need to update my configuration to allow more resources to the Java process?

Or does anyone have any ideas of how to start troubleshooting this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You might consider tuning the stack size via JVM parameters. Type java -X at your console/terminal to see a list of them. In this case, you're probably most interested in changing the stack size: -Xss. For example, you might try java -Xss2048k. If you're on Linux, you may also end up having to change your OS thread stack size with ulimit. Typically, you would do this by adding something like ulimit -s 2048 to /etc/profile.

If this doesn't work, try filing a bug report at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/ or contacting the authors.