[XALANC-745] XalanExe unable to do transform on W3C doc types without workaround

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.10, 1.11
• Component/s: XalanC
• Environment: Issue reproduced on Debian GNU/Linux and Windows XP using 1.10 and 1.11 binaries.
• Assignee: Steven J. Hathaway
• Reporter: Bill Blough
• Created: 18/Jun/13 01:07
• Updated: 25/Sep/13 06:38

Description

Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702225

Since W3C has started blocking some fetches of their documents due to overuse, it is no longer possible to transform xhtml (or presumably other W3C doc types) using XalanExe as shipped.

If the source document is edited and the DOCTYPE URL is adjusted to reflect an existing local or non-W3C-hosted copy of the DTD, then the transform completes as expected.

I suggest adding functionality to XalanExe that will allow it to make use of locally installed DTD/XSD catalogs instead of fetching docs from the W3C website.