Texture plugin installation error

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Dear all,
I encountered errors when installing Texture. I am using upgraded Ojs 3.1.2 from 3.1.1.4

Here are the logs

[12-May-2019 08:24:38 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getId() on null in /home/u6292709/public_html/plugins/generic/texture/TexturePlugin.inc.php:106
Stack trace:
#0 /home/u6292709/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/plugins/HookRegistry.inc.php(107): TexturePlugin->templateFetchCallback('TemplateManager...', Array)
#1 /home/u6292709/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/template/PKPTemplateManager.inc.php(768): HookRegistry::call('TemplateManager...', Array)
#2 /home/u6292709/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/template/PKPTemplateManager.inc.php(1385): PKPTemplateManager->fetch('common/loadingC...')
#3 /home/u6292709/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/template/PKPTemplateManager.inc.php(1402): PKPTemplateManager->smartyLoadUrlInEl(Array, Object(Smarty_Internal_Template))
#4 /home/u6292709/public_html/cache/t_compile/15364f90ab8e369d2f382d18036f5bbedf485a63^652202841b9a358b5663534995b87eb1fcc7545d_0.core.commonheader.tpl.php(220): PKPTemplateManager->smartyLoadUrlInDiv(Array, Object(Smarty_Internal_Template))
#5 /home/u6292709/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/v in /home/u6292709/public_html/plugins/generic/texture/TexturePlugin.inc.php on line 106
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Hi @kawahyu,

It seems that one of the methods is called without a context (not within a journal). Looking at the code, these 2 lines that probably cause the problem aren’t used anywhere: https://github.com/pkp/texture/blob/master/TexturePlugin.inc.php#L100-L101
Can you check if on the line 106 you have this call: $journalId = $journal->getId();?
If yes, can you delete those 2 lines on your instance and tell the results?

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Thanks @Vitaliy
I deleted line 106 and the installation works now. I uploaded two samples of XML in the production stage, the 1st is my journal XML created from your tool Docs2Jats and 2nd is test_jats.xml from docxToJats/test_jats.xml at 78b9c0fa46fa77de427b63cf93c8254b1acbd2c5 · Vitaliy-1/docxToJats · GitHub

The 1st XML results
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The 2nd is below
image

Is there an example of XML which could be edited via Texture?

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Texture expects metadata. Use DOCXconverter plugin, it produces suitable output for editing with Texture: GitHub - Vitaliy-1/docxConverter: Plugin for OJS 3 that parses DOCX and converts it to JATS XML format
If you haven’t worked with Git before, I’ll compose a beta release soon.

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Usually PHP is compiled with all needed libraries for DOCX Converter Plugin but if encounter problems, you may check if php-xml and php-zip are installed on your server. In Ubuntu they can be installed by sudo apt install php-xml php-zip for the default version or sudo apt install php7.3-xml php7.3-zip where 7.3 is php version you are working with.

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