Re: [xsl] DocBook and the JDK built-in XSLTC

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/11/2025 20:34, Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm trying to port some DocBook builds from Saxon to the JDK's bundled
> XSLTC to reduce the dependency footprint and build requirements. These
> are fairly straight-forward DocBook documents and the 1.79.2 XSLT 1.0
> stylesheets for same. It all worked reasonably well with Saxon 6.5.
> With the JDK implementation it fails like this:
>
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>      at
com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.runtime.BasisLibrary.referenceToNodeS
et(BasisLibrary.java:1024)
>      at docbook.l10n$dot$language()
>      at docbook.topLevel()
>      at docbook.transform()
>      at
com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.runtime.AbstractTranslet.transform(Ab
stractTranslet.java:624)
>      at
com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Transf
ormerImpl.java:732)
>      at
com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Transf
ormerImpl.java:345)
>      ... 3 more
>
>
> Does this look familiar to anyone? Is anyone using the JDK XSLT engine
> with DocBook?
Is docbook.transform() code you wrote to run the Docbook stylesheets? Or
is that somehow part of the Docbook distribution?