build problem...(org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.XalanLiason?)

[Chris Knight <ck...@mail.arc.nasa.gov>]

All, I've been unable to build Slide on my system...Below is the error
message I get.  I've searched everywhere and I have no idea where this class
should be coming from...Any hints?  (I've tried building Xalan from source
as well, in the hopes that it would somehow create a XalanLiason class.)

Two other minor comments with regards to the online documentation on
jakarta.apache.org/slide: 1) versioning (and showing those version numbers
in the) documentation would be helpful...I realized after a couple minutes
of personal confusion with regards to valid Domain.xml directives, that I
was looking at newer documentation than what came with the "release".  2)
any possibility of not specifying a width to the documentation?  Many pages
end up with a horizontal scroll bar.  Yeah, these are minor beefs...Ignore
at will. ;)

Anyways, as for my error message:

BUILD FAILED

/export/home/id1/cknight/jakarta-slide/build.xml:147:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.XalanLiaison
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.XalanLiaison
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:297)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:286)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:253)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:313)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:120)
        at
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.XSLTProcess.setProcessor(XSLTProcess.java
:210)
        at
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.XSLTProcess.execute(XSLTProcess.java:133)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:142)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.runTarget(Project.java:818)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:532)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:506)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:420)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:149)

Re: build problem...(org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.XalanLiason?)

[Remy Maucherat <re...@betaversion.org>]

Quoting Chris Knight <ck...@mail.arc.nasa.gov>:

> All, I've been unable to build Slide on my system...Below is the error
> message I get.  I've searched everywhere and I have no idea where this
> class
> should be coming from...Any hints?  (I've tried building Xalan from
> source
> as well, in the hopes that it would somehow create a XalanLiason
> class.)

The XalanLiaison seems to be missing. To build it, add Xalan (the one with JAXP 
1.1 looks nice) to your classpath, and rebuild Ant.
If you're using an Ant binary, it should already be included.

> Two other minor comments with regards to the online documentation on
> jakarta.apache.org/slide: 1) versioning (and showing those version
> numbers
> in the) documentation would be helpful...I realized after a couple
> minutes
> of personal confusion with regards to valid Domain.xml directives, that
> I
> was looking at newer documentation than what came with the "release". 

Yes, good idea.

> 2)
> any possibility of not specifying a width to the documentation?  Many
> pages
> end up with a horizontal scroll bar.  Yeah, these are minor
> beefs...Ignore
> at will. ;)

Feel free to come up with a better look, and hack / enhance the stylesheets :) 
I'm a terrible HTML coder, so you can probably do a better job.

Remy