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I’ve been breaking my head on this for the last couple of days. I kick off my standalone app from another application’s GUI (primarily a reflection engine there) and was having trouble overriding xalan with saxon. I use saxon8 primarily because i needed grouping functions available in XSLT 2.0. 

The setting of of the System property gave me an empty document.

System.setProperty(“javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory”,

“net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl”);
And I had this standard trace when i used any of the XSLT 2.0 functions in my stylesheet.

javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Could not find function: current-group
org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTransformer(Unknown Source)
com.ml.cortex.reports.XMLReportGenerator.writeConsolidateReportToFile(XMLReportGenerator.java:111)
com.ml.cortex.eds.pubsub.EdsPubSubMaster.startGeneration(EdsPubSubMaster.java:214)
com.ml.cortex.eds.pubsub.EdsPubSubMaster.processPubSub(EdsPubSubMaster.java:77)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
com.ml.cortex.stax.CortexTestDriver.executeStep(CortexTestDriver.java:231)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.python.core.PyReflectedFunction.__call__(PyReflectedFunction.java)
org.python.core.PyMethod.__call__(PyMethod.java)
org.python.core.PyObject.__call__(PyObject.java)
org.python.core.PyInstance.invoke(PyInstance.java)
org.python.pycode._pyx117.f$0(<pyExec string>:1)
org.python.pycode._pyx117.call_function(<pyExec string>)
org.python.core.PyTableCode.call(PyTableCode.java)
org.python.core.PyCode.call(PyCode.java)
org.python.core.Py.runCode(Py.java)
org.python.core.Py.exec(Py.java)
org.python.util.PythonInterpreter.exec(PythonInterpreter.java)
com.ibm.staf.service.stax.STAXThread.pyExec(STAXThread.java:562)
com.ibm.staf.service.stax.STAXScriptAction.execute(STAXScriptAction.java:46)
com.ibm.staf.service.stax.STAXThread.execute(STAXThread.java:1204)
com.ibm.staf.service.stax.STAXThreadQueue$QueueThread.run(STAXThreadQueue.java:54)

You would understand that Xalan is the transformer that is being used in the code and not my Saxon. Giving precedence to Saxon in the classpath and Manifest entry gave no results.

What solved the problem was not a solution but a workaround. I use Oracle XDK for my parsing needs. Last night I found out that XDK supports some basic XSLT 2.0 functions. Good for me. So, instead of using Saxon, I used Oracle XDK. I replaced my old javax.xml.TransformerFactory code with much simpler XSLTProcessor. Here is my transformation.

String outputFileName = “FilesOutput.html”;

File resultHTMLFile = new File(outputFileName);

if(resultHTMLFile.exists())

DOMParser parser=new DOMParser();parser.parse(new FileInputStream (new File(xslFileName)));

parser.parse(new FileReader(“Output.xml”));

XSLProcessor processor = new XSLProcessor();

fragment.print (new FileOutputStream(resultHTMLFile));

System.out.println(“Results saved into “ + outputFileName + “.”);