I've got a large XSLT that dumps out a bunch of stuff for serialization to text. If I wrap the text with a start and end element and run it through the XML serializer everything runs fine. If I substitute the text serializer I get no output. A little bit of debugging shows that the start document and end document are never called. I've tested this with Xalan 2.4.1 and Saxon and with commenting out the namespace hack: no difference.
The work around seems to be to wrap the text with pseudo XML eg:
<hack> Generated text </hack>
That is a common requirement for XML parsers.
But I believe this shouldn't be necessary? Strangely enough when I do this, the "hack" elements are not output and everything works fine. Anyone have any ideas where the problem might lie?
The rest of the environment is Win 2K, Jboss 3.0.4 Tomcat 4.1.12 JDK 4.0.1...
Peter Hunsberger
