Xalan2

Question

Hi,
I'm trying some XSLT-Transformations using various XMLParsers and
Transformation engines.
When I put the org-apache-Xalan-Version-2 jar in the ServerClasspath ahead
of the Weblogic.jar file, I encounter various problems starting and running
the server .
Since we use our own RDBMSRealm, which has a xml-based Property File which
is parsed at server startup, I don't know if these problems apply to the
Weblogic Server in general.
One of the problems is that, with the Xalan2 jar at the start of the
(Weblogic)-Classpath, the server no longer seems to be able to parse some
XML files (Exceptions show wrong pathnames), no matter wether they lie in
the filesystem directly, or in (Enterprise-javabeans)-jar files or in wars.
Are there any known problems using the Xalan2 with weblogic?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Brian,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
I can't think of anything in principal that would prevent Xalan-2 from
working as long as it works with the Xerces 1.2.0 parser (which the Xalan-2
docs say it does).
I'm assuming you have the beta-2 version of WebLogic installed. If not,
install it first before trying what follows.
If you have Xalan 1.2 installed, there might be a conflict with Xalan-2. As
it happens, WebLogic 6.0 does come with Xalan 1.2 installed in lib/xmlx.jar.
Note that the lib/xmlx.jar is automatically included in the CLASSPATH if
weblogic.jar is in your CLASSPATH. Therefore, you should rename or remove
lib/xmlx.jar (don't rename the lib directory, just the xmlx.jar file). Then
you either need to install Xerces 1.2.0 (since it was also in xmlx.jar) or
set up Xalan-2 to use the built-in parser's SAXParser
(weblogic.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser) as described at
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#xmlreader
Give this a try and let me know how it goes.
Regards,
-Todd
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Hi,
I'm trying some XSLT-Transformations using various XMLParsers and
Transformation engines.
When I put the org-apache-Xalan-Version-2 jar in the ServerClasspath ahead
of the Weblogic.jar file, I encounter various problems starting andrunning
the server .
Since we use our own RDBMSRealm, which has a xml-based Property File which
is parsed at server startup, I don't know if these problems apply to the
Weblogic Server in general.
One of the problems is that, with the Xalan2 jar at the start of the
(Weblogic)-Classpath, the server no longer seems to be able to parse some
XML files (Exceptions show wrong pathnames), no matter wether they lie in
the filesystem directly, or in (Enterprise-javabeans)-jar files or inwars.
>
Are there any known problems using the Xalan2 with weblogic?
Thanks