Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Xalan Errors and Classpaths

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:09:47PM -0400, Glass, Eric wrote:
> [stuff deleted]
> As far as your second question, JDK 1.4 comes bundled
> with Xalan -- if you want to change the Xalan version used, you will need to
> use the "Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism", which involves copying the
> appropriate jar files into the jre/lib/endorsed directory.  This basically
> does for the bootclasspath what the jre/lib/ext directory does for your
> "normal" classpath.  See the following for more detailed explanation:
> 
> http://xml.apache.org/~edwingo/jaxp-faq.html#JDK14
> 
> http://xml.apache.org/~edwingo/jaxp-faq.html#override

Thanks for this information.  It seems this
decision to bundle Xalan in Java without changing its
classnames is going to complicate working with
XalanJ.  Given the track record of Xalan with
DocBook XSL, most people will need to upgrade their
Xalan at some point beyond the bundled version.  
It isn't hard, but you have to know how to do it.

Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
Caldera International, Inc.                 fax:   (831) 429-1887
                                            email: bobs@caldera.com