RE: Saxon is the best!!!

> Rakesh wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Can u please tell me how i can user SAXON parser? I am 
> using FOP for 
> > processing XML data using XSL:FO for outputs. It fails after just 
> > 10mb. i have to process larger volume of data say 100mb. I 
> can see in 
> > the FOP.bat file that its using XALAN and SAX Parser. 
> Please guide me.
> 
> Make a backup copy, remove xerces.jar, xml-apis.jar and 
> xalan.jar from the classpath, put the saxon.jar into the 
> classpath and make sure you are not using JDK1.4. A somewhat 
> simpler approach is to use the command line utility from 
> Saxon to produce a FO file from your XML and XSL, then run 
> this file through FOP.
> 
Setting the system property javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory to
"com.icl.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl" (in the case of Saxon 6.5.2) also
ensures that Saxon rather than Xalan will be picked up.

Incidentally, this JAXP interface is a wonderful beast. I had a user
recently who was running Saxon from the Xalan command line...

Michael Kay
Software AG
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