XSLT Transform Xalan question

[Albert Tsun <al...@excel.com.hk>]

Hi All,

I am using Xalan-j_2_0_0 which require to create a transformerFactory

     TransformerFactory  tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

and then which require to create a Transfomer by parsing my XSL.

     Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new
StreamSource(xslfile));

and then I call the Xalan XSLT by calling

          transformer.transform(new StreamSource(xmlfile), new StreamResult(new
FileOutputStream(outfile)));

However, my xsl contains some Entity Reference which look like

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY nl "<xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>">
<!ENTITY nbsp "<xsl:text>&#x20;</xsl:text>">
]>

and I use some template call

        <xsl:call-template name="append-pad">
            <xsl:with-param name="padChar">&nbsp;</xsl:with-param>
            <xsl:with-param name="padVar" select="$reportid"/>
            <xsl:with-param name="length" select="14"/>
        </xsl:call-template>

(See attached file: R2002.xsl)

When I call tFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xslfile)), there is error :


file:c:/javaproject/xalan/input/R2002.xsl; Line 68; Column 50;
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfig
urationException: xsl:text is not allowed in this position in the stylesheet!
        at
org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTransformer(TransformerFactoryImpl.j

ava:650)
        at XML2RptEngine.setReportXSLFile(XML2RptEngine.java:95)
        at TestXalan.<init>(TestXalan.java:20)
        at TestXalan.main(TestXalan.java:47)


Previously, I use Xalan-J_1_2_D02, since this do not require to parse XSL, it
works OK.


Would someone could help and give me some pointer ? Is this related to the
underlying parsing configuration i.e. Xerces ?

Many Thanks in advance.