JDK1.4.2 and xalan conflict?

Question

In my java code, I apply an xsl to an xml file. It works fine in JDK 1.4.1 but when I change JDK to 1.4.2
I got the following error
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0.
The error occurs in org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl class. I know JDK1.4.2 bundled with xalan classes. Is there any conflict? Why it works in JDK1.4.1 but not JDK1.4.2? How can I bypass xalan classes in JDK1.4.2 and use seperate xalan.jar from apache?

Answer 1

I have a similar problem where using XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(aNode, "/Parent/Child/") works
fine with jdk1.4.1 but not with jdk1.4.2;
the error i get is a javax.xml.transform.TransformerException where is complains about
"A location step was expected following the '/' or '//' token."
What i tried doing was removing the trailing slash at the end of the xpath expression and it seemed
to resolve it fine.
Is this a change in the way xalan's XPathAPI behaves to remove ambiguity in the xpath expression?
As a side not, I am using weblogic 8.1 SP1 and trying to put another version of xalan in the startup
PRE_CLASSPATH doesnt seem to get around this.
would appreciate any insight.