people, I understand Xerces has some internal DOM sanity checks that do not allow you to create a non-wellformed DOM. In particular, it doesn't allow you to create text nodes that are not included into any element.
This prevents many interesting features of XSLT text output, for example, VRML rendering or Java code creation, the last being _very_ important in Cocoon since it will be the base for page compilation. I request this limitation to be removed and thus allowing a DOM tree to be just a text wrapper, in some senses. I give you an example <?xml version="1.0"?> <echo message="Hello, World!"/> then <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="echo"> public class Echo { public static void main(String args[]) { System.println("<xsl:value-of select="@message"/>"); } } </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> I get the following exception org.apache.xerces.dom.DOMExceptionImpl: HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR at org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl.internalInsertBefore(NodeImpl.java:666) at org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl.insertBefore(NodeImpl.java:577) at org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl.insertBefore(DocumentImpl.java:246) at org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl.appendChild(NodeImpl.java:387) at org.apache.xalan.xpath.xml.FormatterToDOM.append(FormatterToDOM.java:136) at org.apache.xalan.xpath.xml.FormatterToDOM.characters(FormatterToDOM.java:301) at org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl$ResultTreeHandler.characters(Compiled Code) at org.apache.xalan.xslt.ElemTextLiteral.execute(ElemTextLiteral.java:114) at org.apache.xalan.xslt.ElemTemplateElement.executeChildren(ElemTemplateElement.java:507) at org.apache.xalan.xslt.ElemTemplate.execute(ElemTemplate.java:141) at org.apache.xalan.xslt.StylesheetRoot.process(StylesheetRoot.java:405) at org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.process(XSLTEngineImpl.java:571) .... (cocoon stack trace skipped) I don't know how hard this is to fix, but we need a way to be able to let the XSLT processor do something like that since it's perfectly legal. I consider this a bug, expecially since it exists a "text" output method in XSLT and we must be able to make it work. -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche
