Re: [xsl] Xalan Encoding Problems - RETRACTION

["Raul Rodriguez" <raulnyc at hotmail dot com>]

OK, I need to retract what I last posted:  it looks like using an older 
Xerces does NOT TOTALLY work.

Here is what I am doing:

I am using Xalan to transform an XML document into an FO object.  I am 
importing a stylesheet that is encoded in ISO-8859-1, which I got from 
http://www.renderx.com and allows me to add a barcode to my FO object.  I 
then use RenderX XEP renderer to render the FO document into PDF.

When I use the latest Xerces JAR file, Xalan dies complaining that it cannot 
process ISO-8859-1 encoding.  I reverted to an older version of Xerces and 
it worked fine.  However, rendering my FO using RenderX show a barcode that 
looked horrible.  All of the vertical lines, except one, was missing.

Using the lastest version of Saxon worked perfectly and it looks like I am 
force to abandon Xalan for the time being.

If you wish to test this yourself, download the sample XSL and XML files at 
http://www.renderx.com/barcodes.html and prove that I am crazy.

Thanks

Raul Rodriguez
New York City

>From: Jörg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@gmx.de>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: Re: [xsl] Xalan Encoding Problems
>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 23:15:30 +0100
>
>Really strange. I couldn't imagine that Xerces was the problem, because
>Xalan uses 'in theory' always the current version. On the site of Xalan
>there is written:
>
>"The Xalan download includes xerces.jar from Xerces-Java version 1.4.3. 
>This
>is all you need to run Xalan with the Xerces XML parser. You can, however,
>download the complete Xerces distribution from the xerces-j distribution
>directory."
>
>The Xerces version 1.4.3 is dated 8/20/2001 and I use it at home. Where did
>you get your Xalan 2.2.D11 from? This website:
>http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html ? What was the version of your
>non-working Xerces?
>
>Joerg
>
>
>Raul Rodriguez wrote:
>
>>David:
>>
>>You were correct.  The problem does seem to lie with the version of
>>Xerces that comes with Xalan_j_2_2_D11.  I also downloaded the latest
>>version of the Xerces jar file and it worked.  I then used a copy (dated
>>5/18/2001) that came with my Visual Age for Java distribution and it
>>worked fine.  If this has not been reported as a bug, I will register as
>>such.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Raul
>
>
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