Running XT on a Mac

["Chuck White" <chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As many on this list know, the Mac doesn't have a command line for running
XT, so I downloaded the newest iteration of the Mac Java SDK to see if there
was a way to run it. It's at:

http://developer.apple.com/java/

This has the basic java stuff like javac and javadoc, but there is still no
command line application runner so you have to jump through a few hoops to
get XT going. I've jumped through a couple of hoops but now am stuck in the
last one, I think. I've at least got the JBindery program to read the XT jar
package's main class file, I believe. What happens though is that the result
file that is generated is empty. I'm using James Clark's demo files for
source and stylesheet, so I know it's not my lousy XSL writing skills
(besides, I've used XT on the PC and know it should give me a message
telling me where I screwed up). And when I leave out the parameters for the
command line, I get the usual java usage stdout (in XT's case I get: usage:
java com.jclark.xsl.sax.Driver source stylesheet [result]). This tells me
I'm at least getting the program to read the main class file (i think). I
left out the parameters on purpose just to see if I could get a message
stdout to print to a file (it prints to screen but then immediately quits,
so I had it print to file). 

The MacJava SDK version 2.1 comes with a program called JBindery, which is
supposed to act as a command-line implementation through a GUI. But it's not
a true command line implementation so it's not possible to just paste the
command line I'm using into this e-mail so that someone can show me where I
am going astray. But as I said, I don't think it's a class path problem. So
I'd like to show how I got to this point, and if anybody knows anything
about Mac implementations of Java, and particular XT, I would love some
feedback (help):

In JBindery under Classpath I pick the jar files I want to use (like XP and
XT). Under "Command", I provide the name "com.jclark.xsl.sax.Driver".
"Command" acts as the command line, I guess (well, part of it anyway). But
you have to set the Sax driver property somewhere else, under "Properties".
I'm thinking this is where the problems are, but I don't know. I'm a little
confused about what Sax driver I should be using for the Mac anyway (I used
com.jclark.xml.sax.Driver as a guess). 

Has anyone out there had any success with what I'm trying to do? Or is there
something really obvious that I'm missing? I have a variety of reasons for
wanting to run XT on the Mac, which I won't bother going into.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Chuck White
Creative Director
Advance Recruitment Advertising, Inc.
chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.advancerecruitment.com


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