Need to use Xalan in place of Oracle XSLT processor

Question

We are working with Oracle BPEL 10.1.3.3. We have a requirement to use Xalan as the XSLT processor to preserve existing investment into transformation maps built using Contivo (which is certified to work with Xalan).
That said, we are having some trouble getting the Xalan processor to kick in going the java:exec route. For some reason, we end up with Oracle's XSLT processor in spite of asking for the Xalan implementation.
TransformerFactory tFactory = new org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl();
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xslInURI));
System.out.println(tFactory.toString()+transformer.toString());
Strangely enough, the above snippet prints:
[email protected]Transformer@e39f6b
Wondering if anybody else has used Xalan successfully in conjunction with 10.1.3.3 bits. Appreciate your help.

Answer 1

please copy and paste the following in your xpath-functions.xml file
<function id="processXSLT" arity="2">
<classname>com.collaxa.cube.xml.xpath.functions.xml.GetElementFromXSLTFunction</classname>
<property id="namespace-uri">
<value>http://schemas.oracle.com/xpath/extension/xalan/xslt</value>
</property>
<property id="namespace-prefix">
<value>xalan</value>
</property>
</function>
This function would try to find the default transformer factory using
TransformerFactory.newInstance()
so you might need to place the xalan transformer factory properties file in the beginning of your classpath (server.xml ) or pass it as jvm system property like below:
-Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl