>My guess is that the namesspace declarations for the XMLSS >elements is pulling in a DTD that is causing problems
Xalan itself should never be attempting attempt to dereference XML Namespace URIs. As far as I know, they _should_ be treated strictly as magic strings... unless something we're using to validate their syntax has decided to also try to look them up on the network, which would be rather rude. Are you sure there isn't a DTD reference in (one of) your source document(s)? We do normally run the parser in validating mode, since XSLT wants to know about things like IDs, so that definitely could be trying to hit the wire. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
