Re: xalan usage in taglibs

2017-11-30 16:51 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Boynes <[email protected]>:
>> On Nov 30, 2017, at 3:14 AM, Matthew Broadhead <matthew.broadhead@nbmlaw=
.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> has anything been decided?  if i try to redeploy a context in production=
 all my xslt processors blow up.  there should be a solution that fits all?
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> Taglibs (both Apache and Glassfish) has always had a dependency on Xalan.=
 My understanding is that TomEE did not include it and so broke users that =
use the XML tags. If so, TomEE should fix that.

Sadly this is not a bug on tomee but the best solution we went through
after having delivered xalan for some releases. Xalan dependency
breaks 80% of apps so no way to include it - and this is the issue of
Matthew. Note it also affects simple apps in tomcat including taglib
and other libs.

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> You can probably add Xalan to your TomEE installation somehow to work aro=
und it but how to do that is really a question for the TomEE users list.
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> A patch for Taglibs that removes the Xalan dependency and doesn't regress=
 the #27717 performance fix would be great. A patch that removed the depend=
ency but regressed performance would have to be evaluated at the time. The =
previous decision was not to do that.
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