DOCBOOK-APPS: Xalan is stealing my sleep

[Claus Rasmussen <claus@arsdigita.com>]

First of all - this posting contains a lot of error-messages. Sorry for
that, but it's the only way I can sketch out my problem.

For a while I've been thinking that it had to be our customizations that
broke Xalan 2, but now I give up:

I install a pure, untouched version of

 - Xalan 2 java
 - Norms XSL style sheets v1.29
 - The DocBook XML DTD v4.1.2

The Xalan tests all run without problems.

When I try the tests that come with Norms style sheets the trouble begins.

(I should mention that chunking is the problem - producing one big document
goes smoothly).

First error is:

DOM ERROR! class: org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemExtensionCall
file:///home/claus/docbook/xsl/1.29-untouched/docbook/html/chunk.xsl; Line
17; Column 58;
XSLT Error (javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException): Failed
calling setPrefix method!

Closer inspection of chunk.xsl shows a workaround for Xalan 1. I comment
this out and try again:

file:///home/claus/docbook/xsl/1.29-untouched/docbook/html/chunk-common.xsl;
Line 657; Column 16; Writing ch01s02.html f
or sect1
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException
        at
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transformNode(TransformerImpl.j
ava:1212)
        at
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java:2894)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
---------
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
        at org.apache.xml.utils.BoolStack.pop(BoolStack.java:134)
        at
org.apache.xalan.serialize.SerializerToHTML.endElement(SerializerToHTML.java
:631)
        at
org.apache.xalan.transformer.ResultTreeHandler.endElement(ResultTreeHandler.
java:284)
        at
org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemLiteralResult.execute(ElemLiteralResult.java:
749)
        at
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.executeChildTemplates(Transform
erImpl.java:2154)
        at
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.executeChildTemplates(Transform
erImpl.java:2097)
        at
org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemTemplate.execute(ElemTemplate.java:380)
        at
org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemCallTemplate.execute(ElemCallTemplate.java:20
2)

...and some 20-30 lines more of java errors.

Now this is exactly what happens with my customized style sheet also - I
just wanted to test it with ...the tests.

Am I insane? Is my Java insane? What am I doing wrong ?

Anyone helping out will go to bed tonight knowing that he/she pulled a
desperate guy back from the edge...

Thanks,
Claus