Hi,
I have been using Xalan-J with Catalog Resolver for a long while already. It
was just recently that I ran into an issue with resolving.
It happened when I got an idea to use character entities in XSLT trnsform
file and added an appropriate declaration to the XSLT file, like this:
<!DOCTYPE transform [
<!ENTITY % w3centities-f PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Combined Set//EN//XML"
"http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/w3centities-f.ent";>
%w3centities-f;
]>
<xsl:transform version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
...
Everything was fine, except unusual processing time, even despite the
enitities declaration was registered with the resolver. The reason became
clear when I disabled the network connection. The result was a
"java.net.UnknownHostException: www.w3.org" that flew out of
org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process.
Enabling full debug in the resolver revealed that nothing is wrong with it.
It honestly reported about appropriate catalog entries (correct ones), and
in case internet connection was present even reported about successful
resolving of the entities file as a local resource. The only problem was
that in case internet connection was down, the resolver was not given a
chance to respond, as the exception flew out earlier.
Curiously, I managed to work around the problem by wrapping the XSLT file
into another one using 'xsl:include'. In that case no problems occured, and
everything was fine regardless of the internet connection.
My configuration is like this:
- Windows Vista;
- jdk1.6.0_25[b01_debug]
- Xalan-J 2.7.1
- Xerces 2.11.0
- Apache XML Commons Resolver 1.2
Frankly, my attempts to debug the problem were not very much successful due
to some unclear problem in getting Xalan and Xerces source recognized by the
Eclipse debugger...
Still the issue looks like a bug, or may I miss something?
Regards,
Sergey
