Piotr Banski (helpfully) wrote:
the answer is: nothing's changed
about the command line.
Thank you very much for your reply. Evidently I had some confusion in my
working on a few different systems. I appreciate the help.
Java 1.4 has this 'endorsed
classes' mechanism that lets you override the installed classes
...This is all described somewhere on Xalan-J pages
Your tip on endorsed classes and endorsed directories was for me very helpful
and enlightening.
I'd been aware of that, but entirely un-knowing about how it worked.
I did (eventually--see URLs list below) download Xalan 2.4.1, put the jars in
the right directory, and the '-V' version confirmed Java had picked it up.
Thanks.
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C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.3\webapps\ROOT\iaddev> java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process
-V
Xalan Version Xalan Java 2.4.1, <<<<<<<
Error: No stylesheet or input xml is specified. Run this command without any
option for usage instructions.
C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.3\webapps\ROOT\iaddev>
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Best regards,
William Reilly
wreilly(_at_)digitas(_dot_)com
Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A.
Here are some URLs I found with info on How To use the Endorsed directory and
classes.
(Note: mostly from java.sun.com's updated tutorials; xml.apache.org Xalan pages
mostly refers to JDK1.3 info still):
=== ENDORSED CLASSES / DIRECTORIES ==========================================
High level statement...
"Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism"
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/standards/index.html
This page (about org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process) has link to next page on how to
upgrade your Xalan past j2sdk1.4 version.
Transforming from the Command Line with Xalan (The J2EETM Tutorial Addendum )
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JAXPXSLT7.html
How To place newer Xalan (and JAXP) jars to get Sun's j2sdk1.4 to recognize
them ("/jre/lib/endorsed/(jars)")
Compiling and Running the Program (The J2EETM Tutorial Addendum )
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JAXPSAX4.html#64274
This page (about the Translets) has link to similar page (next one) on how to
upgrade your Xalan past j2sdk1.4 version.
Transforming from the Command Line (XSLTC) (The Java Web Services Tutorial)
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.0/tutorial/doc/JAXPXSLT8.html
(similar info, basically) How To place newer Xalan (and JAXP) jars to get
Sun's j2sdk1.4 to recognize them ("/jre/lib/endorsed/(jars)")
Compiling and Running the Program (The Java Web Services Tutorial)
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.0/tutorial/doc/JAXPSAX4.html#64274
Miscellaneous:
JavaTM API for XML (1.2) Processing Release Notes - (Summer 2002)
Identifying the JAR Files (lists the 6 jars)
http://java.sun.com/xml/docs/summer02/jaxp/ReleaseNotes.html#identifying
API for org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/apache/xalan/xslt/Process.html
Xalan-Java 2 Samples - Validate (the other thing I want to get reliably working
:>)
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/samples.html#validate
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-----Original Message-----
From: Piotr Banski
[mailto:bansp(_at_)venus(_dot_)ci(_dot_)uw(_dot_)edu(_dot_)pl]
Sent: Wed 2/19/2003 6:15 PM
To: William Reilly
Cc: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] What's the new Java (1.4) command-line for Xalan
transformation processing?
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, William Reilly wrote:
> I've missed something in upgrading from Java 1.3.1 to Java 1.4 when
it
> comes to using my familiar command-line Xalan:
>java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN in.xml -XSL myxsl.xsl -OUT
out.xml
-PARAM recipe abc
> I understand Xalan and Xerces are now part of the Sun Java (J2SE)
> distribution, and that (in theory?) you don't need to separately
> install them, but I don't know where to go in all the Java packages
to
> get a similar command-line utility.
Unless I misunderstand your question, the answer is: nothing's changed
about the command line. If you don't install a new version of Xalan,
the
invocation above will run the version that comes with Java 1.4.
> http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/commandline.html
What must have confused you is the fact that Java 1.4 has this
'endorsed
classes' mechanism that lets you override the installed classes -- if
e.g.
you decide to install a newer Xalan package (which may be a good idea).
This is all described somewhere on Xalan-J pages.
(And if you decide to upgrade, be aware of the fact that the newest
official version of Xalan (2.4.1) has an ugly bug that mangles the
output
if you use the -TS switch ('trace selection events'), so if you want it
to
work, get a recent nightly build.)
Good luck,
Piotr
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