Overriding default XML parser in Resin

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to use the the Saxon version 7 parser (Saxon7.jar) with Resin. I am using shared hosting and only have access to my web.xml and lib directory.
Using Tomcat on my development environment, all I had to do was place the Saxon7.jar in my lib directory and everything worked just fine. Doing the same on Resin didn't work. Resin is still using it's default parser.
To see the stacktrace follow this link:
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You will see that it is still using Caucho's parser:
com.caucho.xsl.StylesheetImpl.transform(StylesheetImpl.java:205)
Is there a way to override Resin's default parser using web.xml?
Thanks,
BacMan

Answer 1

One way to make your program use the Saxon 6 transformer is to make this line of code run in its initialization:System.setProperty("javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory",
  "com.icl.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl");This is for Saxon 6, note, the class name you should use for Saxon 7 is something else. You should find the exact name in the Saxon documentation somewhere.
I don't have any Resin experience, but you need to find the place where you can specify Java system properties for Resin and specify that one (javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory) there. The command-line version would be
java -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=...