You either need to pursue the problem with the support channel for the XSLT
processor in question, or you need to switch to a different XSLT processor.
Trying to change your code to work around the problem isn't a good way
forward unless you know very specifically what the problem is.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: footh [mailto:footh@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 October 2006 19:38
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Error when switching to java 1.5
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I am using Xalan 2.7 which implements XSLT 1.0.
> 
> The idea behind the identity template is to just repeat the 
> source XML.  So, that is my desired result.
>  In this case, I have HTML mixed in with custom XML. 
> The custom XML gets transformed with specific templates while 
> the HTML should just be copied over.
> 
> I've experimented a little on the results.  It turns out that 
> the error occurs when the processor first hits an attribute 
> inside an HTML tag.  What I did was change the problematic 
> "apply-templates" tag to this:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@id|node()" />
> 
> Then used a simple source XML doc:
> 
> <div id="someid">hello</div>
> 
> And, I received the error.  But if I took out the "id"
> attribute then I did not receive the error.  Of course, if I 
> changed it to another attribute, then I wouldn't receive an 
> error, but the attribute would not be copied to the result.
> 
> So, clearly, something is going wrong with coping over attributes.
> 
> Note that if I use this identity template:
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Everything works fine.  BUT, this template does not remove 
> namespaces (which causes the result to not conform to valid XHTML).
> 
> So, if anyone can suggest another way to have an identity 
> template that removes namespaces, that would be great.  For 
> reference, here is the identity template combo I'm using that 
> is problematic (on the second template):
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*">
>   <xsl:attribute name="{name()}"
> namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
>    <xsl:value-of select="." />
>   </xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="*">
>   <xsl:element name="{name()}"
> namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
>   </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Can you please tell, what is your source XML and the desired output?
> > 
> > Which XSLT processor and its version are you using?
> > Are you using XSLT
> > 1.0 or XSLT 2.0?
> > 
> > This information will help us to solve the problem.
> > 
> > On 10/21/06, footh <footh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I am using an identity template that removes namespaces 
> in a Cocoon 
> > > application that runs under Tomcat.  Previously, I was using Java 
> > > 1.4.2 but
> > once I
> > > switched to Java 1.5 I receive a null pointer 
> TransformerException.  
> > > Following is the identity template that matches all nodes.  The 
> > > error occurs
> > on
> > > the "apply-templates" tag.  On the "select"
> > attribute,
> > > the presence of the "@*" symbol causes the error. 
> > If
> > > I remove it, everything is fine.  However, then 
> attributes of nodes 
> > > are not rendered.  Has anyone encountered this problem 
> before?  Any 
> > > suggestions?
> > >
> > >  <xsl:template match="*">
> > >   <xsl:element name="{name()}"
> > > namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
> > >     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
> > >   </xsl:element>
> > >  </xsl:template>
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mukul Gandhi
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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