Going back to Xalan: what do these error messages mean

Hi,

coming back from using another XSLT processor, I am now back using
Xalan. Transforming my document (ariadnetest.xml) isn't successful, and
I am getting the following (main) error messages:

chiloe@~...Xalan/Ariadne > java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in
ariadnetest.xml -XSL ariadne_dlmeta.xsl -out ariadnetest_out.xml
-validate -indent 3 -tt -edump
Invalid option: -validate
Line #0, Column #0: template match='/' 

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: TRaX Transform Throwable
 (...)
---------
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: TRaX Transform Throwable
 (...)
---------
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: TRaX Transform Throwable
 (...)
---------
org.apache.xml.utils.URI$MalformedURIException: No scheme found in URI:
ariadnetest.xml
(...)
org.apache.xml.utils.URI$MalformedURIException: No scheme found in URI:
ariadnetest.xml

Concerning the last two messages, URI's only occur at the beginning of
my XML document (ariadnetest.xml), which reads

<!DOCTYPE BaseScheme SYSTEM
"http://bouts.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/AriadneWWW/ARIADNEMetadata.dtd"
        [
                <!NOTATION HTML SYSTEM "text/html">
                <!ENTITY AD SYSTEM
"http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/" NDATA HTML>
                <!ENTITY TRAHASCH SYSTEM
"http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~trahasch" NDATA HTML>
        ]
>

As I don't know where to start looking at, I am (once again) asking for
help via this list.

Thanks in advance and best regards from the black forest,
Matt

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