DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Problems with ANT and DocBook

[Marc Palmer <marc@anyware.co.uk>]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:22:01 -0500, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

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> / Marc Palmer <marc@anyware.co.uk> was heard to say:
> | The first file (platform-arch.xml) builds to HTML fine usind DocBook
> | XSL, but the second file dies straight away.
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> Sure looks like an ant bug to me.
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> | This implies that something is not being "reset" between XSL
> | processing of the files - whether this is a problem with my use of the
> | <style> task, a problem with Docbook, or a problem with ANT I do not
> | know.
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> Dave Pawson was doing some work with ant. Dave, any ideas?

I tracked it down - running ANT over JDK/JRE 1.4 - some problem with ANT 
and JDK 1.4's XML support.

Building with ANT running in JDK 1.3 works fine.

Thanks
Marc