Re: Process class hanging when encountering xmlns with no value

[Nathan Nadeau <nd...@gleim.com>]

Lewis,

I can't comment on what the behavior is supposed to be, but I tried 
reproducing the same xmlns error in my test XSL, and Xalan (I am using 
2.7.1) did not hang, it quit with an appropriate error message.

I believe if the input XSL is no good, Xalan will then try to find an 
XSL to use via a "xml-stylesheet" processing-instruction in the input 
XML file. My test XML file did not have this instruction, so for my test 
Xalan also reports this and then quits. But I see your output does not 
mention not being able to find a xml-stylesheet PI. Could it be your 
"file.xhtml" has a xml-stylesheet PI and then Xalan is running and/or 
hanging on that?

Good luck,
Nathan

McGibbney, Lewis John wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm not sure what the bahaviour is meant to be here, I'm also not sure if there is a Jira issue files for this one so I thought the best thing to do would be to report here.
>
> Basically when running o.a.x.xslt.Process -IN file.xhtml -XSL file.xsl -OUT file.xml Xalan-j hangs rather than skipping out of the class. For clarity I've attached the dodgy snippet from xsl I was using when the behaviour occured, as well as the terminal output before I skipped out.
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>         xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>         xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/schemaLegislationMetadata.xsd"
>         xmlns:uk>
>   <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" omit-xml-declaration="no" indent="yes"/>
>   <xsl:param name="versionParam" select="'1.0'"/>
>
> much much more xsl code.
>
> lewis@lewis-01:~/yax$ ./testRun.sh
> [Fatal Error] stripMarkup.xsl:25:10: Attribute name "xmlns:uk" associated with an element type "xsl:stylesheet" must be followed by the ' = ' character.
> file:///home/lewis/yax/examples/xslt/stripMarkup.xsl; Line #25; Column #10; org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:///home/lewis/yax/examples/xslt/stripMarkup.xsl; lineNumber: 25; columnNumber: 10; Attribute name "xmlns:uk" associated with an element type "xsl:stylesheet" must be followed by the ' = ' character.
>
> exit
> ^Z
> [1]+  Stopped                 ./testRun.sh
>
> Thanks, if this is an issue please say so and I will log a Jira accordingly.
>
>
> Lewis
>
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