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ohseekay
ohseekay

Reputation: 805

Error in XSL - "... does not identify an external Java class"

My xsl stylesheet begins with the following:

<xsl:transform
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
xmlns:b64="net.sf.saxon.value.Base64BinaryValue"
xmlns:fos="java.io.FileOutputStream" exclude-result-prefixes="b64 fos">
...

When I run my webapp I get the following error message:

"The URI net.sf.saxon.value.Base64BinaryValue does not identify an external Java class"

From the error message I think this means that I don't have the required jar file.

  1. Where can I locate/download this jar file?
  2. In which folder(s) should I put this jar file? (tomcat/lib folder? My WEB-INF/lib folder?)
  3. Is there anything else I should take note?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1186

Answers (2)

Michael Kay
Michael Kay

Reputation: 163322

I suspect that this error message comes from Saxon 6.5.x, which is the old Saxon XSLT 1.0 processor. The stylesheet is apparently written to work with a more recent version of Saxon (the current release is 9.4).

Upvotes: 1

andrew cooke
andrew cooke

Reputation: 46882

here is a list of jars that contain that class. it should work fine in either of the locations you give (in the first case, for all applications; in th second for that specific application - i would normally use the latter).

Upvotes: 1

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