Interesting. My first bet is that this is a Xerces issue. You should try
the parse with just Xerces to see what happens.
-scott
"Chris P. McCabe"
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Please respond to
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I don't know if this is a Xerces or Xalan bug, but if an external entity
that contains XML begins with a newline character, the XML cannot be
referenced in the stylesheet in certain circumstances. In the test case
below, if test2.xml begins with a newline, the xsl:value-of element in
the stylesheet will produce no value. If the newline is removed, it
works as expected. This is a contrived example to illustrate the
problem, and if a template is created for the "bar" element and
apply-templates is called, it works correctly in either case.
============ test.xml ==============
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE page [
<!ENTITY values SYSTEM "test2.xml">
]>
<page>
&values;
</page>
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============ test2.xml ==============
<foo>
<bar>Some Text</bar>
</foo>
=====================================
============= test.xsl ==============
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="page">
<html><body>
<xsl:value-of select="//bar"/>
</body></html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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