XSLTC Giving Could Not Compile Stylesheet.

Question

Hi All,
Till now i am using xalan.jar and my xsl is as fallows
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:js="javascriptcode" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java" exclude-result-prefixes="js java" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="b"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="b">
<tar:target xmlns:tar="http://target">
<tar:Element>
<xsl:value-of select="js:fnMathematicalAbsolute(/b/b12)"/>
</tar:Element>
</tar:target>
</xsl:template>
<lxslt:component prefix="js">
<lxslt:script lang="javascript">function fnMathematicalAbsolute(iNum) {return(Math.abs(iNum))}</lxslt:script>
</lxslt:component>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This works fine Xalan . It is able to call the js extensions .
I want to move from xalan to JDK 1.5 XSLTC .If ia m using this xsl It is giving Could not compile the stylesheet.
Can anyone tell me why JDK1.5 doent compiling the stylesheet or is it a problem with my stylesheet. .This is urgent for me as i need to move to jdk 1.5 xsltc.
Thanks in advance ,
Sasi.A

Answer 1

The problem is that J2SE 5 (unlike J2SE 6) does not include a JavaScript engine which is, however, required to interpret the JavaScript code embedded in XSLT stylesheets. You either have to keep on using Xalan (this utilizes Mozilla's Rhino JavaScript engine through the org.apache.bsf.BSFManager class) or switch to J2SE 6.
Below are download links to three components that make up an applicable unit to compile your stylesheet:
Xalan (xalan.jar, 3078601 bytes)
http://apache.mirrors.ebizlab.hit.bme.hu/dist/xml/xalan-j/binaries/xalan-j_2_7_0-bin.zip
Rhino JavaScript engine (js.jar, 708951 bytes)
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/rhino1_6R5.zip
Jakarta BSF (bsf.jar, 113369 bytes)
http://apache.mirrors.crysys.hit.bme.hu/dist/jakarta/bsf/binaries/bsf-bin-2.4.0.zip