that did the trick, thank you antonio. anna, you and i were having the same problem, if it still isn't fixed i think this could be the solution to your problem as well: make sure updated xerxes and xalan jars are in $JAVA_HOME/lib/jre/endorsed as well as $TOMCAT_HOME/common/endorsed -- jacob
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