Re: [xsl] xalan and replace "regex"

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mansour wrote:
> Ok, look, I have a somewhat big docbook files. I have been using xalan 
> to process them.  I have just tried with  saxon9 and the processing 
> failed with this message:
>
> Running an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet with an XSLT 2.0 processor
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
> com/icl/saxon/pattern/NodeTest
>        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
>        at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
>        at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:2547)
>        at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:1410)
>        at 
> net.sf.saxon.functions.JavaExtensionLibrary.bind(JavaExtensionLibrary.java:301) 
>
>        at 
> net.sf.saxon.functions.FunctionLibraryList.bind(FunctionLibraryList.java:83) 
>
>        at 
> net.sf.saxon.expr.ExpressionParser.parseFunctionCall(ExpressionParser.java:1840) 
>
>        at 
> net.sf.saxon.expr.ExpressionParser.parseBasicStep(ExpressionParser.java:1324) 
>
>      
> How, do I need to re-write everything to use saxon so I can hl my code 
> or just stick to what I have?

No. You can use (most of) your XSLT 1.0 code with an XSLT 2.0 processor. 
This error seems to imply that your classpath is not correctly 
configured and has nothing to do with the XSLT files itself. Try to run 
it from the commandline instead (java -jar saxon9.jar) and see if you 
still have that error.

The first line is a warning, not an error. You can ignore it. Or you can 
change the version attribute to 2.0 in your main xsl:stylesheet. If some 
of your code uses XSLT 1.0 specific features that have changed towards 
XSLT 2.0, you can switch on XSLT 1.0 backward compatibility mode by 
setting version or xsl:version of that specific instruction to "1.0".

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma