Re: is it possible to resize an image to display small

it appears the file output generated that line as

<fo:external-graphic src="url()" content-height="50pt"
content-width="50pt"/>

which suggests it didn't pull the location from the tag photoimg in
the xml?

as suspected (since the error message looked suspiciously like it was
referencing a file with no name) which means that the xpath inside the
{} is incorrect, but you haven't shown enough of your stylesheet or
source file for anyone to say what the correct xpath is to select the
element with the image path from the element at which the template is
being executed.