>Xalan _does_ issue a warning when a document cannot be opened -- it's >your environment that's swallowing this warning. Try specifying a >non-existent document from the command line and you'll see the warning.
>The XSLT recommendation allows an implementation to return an empty >node-set from the document() function, if the document cannot be loaded. >That's why you're getting an empty node-set. i've enabled warnings and error messages. it actually does give a warning if i specified a non valid path, or path to a file that does not exist. >There must be something about Tuxedo which is interfering with opening >files. I suggest you experiment with a small test program of your own >that just tries to open a file when running under Tuxedo. we currently have tuxedo servers that open log files as well as files for writing call data records. so it seems that tuxedo does not interfere with the opening of files. thanx for your help. i'll keep trying.... regards roelof.
