jre issue with jEdit, DocBook and DocBook xsl stylesheets

["Ney, Gordon B CTR USA AMC" <gordon.ney@us.army.mil>]

Hi,

I am transforming a large 4.4 DocBook file into an XSL-Fo file.  I use
an extensive customization layer and DocBook xsl stylesheets 1.69.1,
which also turns on the RenderX extensions.  To perform the
transformation, I am using jEdit 4.2 with the xml and xslt processor
plugins. I start jEdit in a jre with parameters -Xms512M -Xmx1024M.

My problem stems from the following: when I perform the transformation
using jre1.5.0_20, it works well; however when using jre6, it fails and
the jEdit activity log has the following set of error messages that are
repeated many times.

[error] AWT-EventQueue-0:  at
org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemApplyTemplates.transformSelectedNodes(Ele
mApplyTemplates.java:425)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0:  at
org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemApplyTemplates.execute(ElemApplyTemplates
.java:215)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0:  at
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.executeChildTemplates(Trans
formerImpl.java:2318)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0:  at
org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemIf.execute(ElemIf.java:203)

I experience the same behavior at home with my own personal computer.  I
also experience the same behavior when I upgraded jEdit and its plugins
to the latest version.

My problem is that my work computer's operating system must be changed
from XP to Vista and only the jre6 java environment will be supported,
thus taking away my ability to perform this transformation.  Is there a
way to make this transformation work?

Gordon