The question is, whether it makes any sense to report a bug in XALAN,
since latest release is from 2007... :-(

No idea, I think there is a Xalan user and Xalan developer list
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/contact_us.html
still having some traffic so ask there.

	Martin Honnen
	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/