What's the actual error message you're getting? (At a guess: There's a 64K bytecode limit per Java class, if I remember correctly. It's possible to work around that limit by breaking the big class up into a succession of layered subclasses, so no one class goes over the line but total code size can continue to increase -- but I don't know whether XSLTC ever learned to apply that trick to its own code generation. If not, then complicated stylesheets could indeed break this barrier and fail to compile.)
______________________________________ "... Three things are most perilous: Connectors that corrode, Unproven algorithms, and self-modifying code! ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)