Re: <stderr>: SystemId Unknown; Line #57; Column #31; Failed calling setMethod method

Daniel,

I checked the Xalan source code (version 2_7_1) and this error message 
(or at least one that matches it) is generated by Xalan, specifically in 
the org/apache/xalan/processor/XSLTAttributeDef.java class. It seems to 
be failing when attempting to use the setMethod() method, which by my 
best guess, is a method of the class representing the <xsl:output> tag 
in some XSLT stylesheet somewhere. Note that <xsl:output> has a "method" 
attribute, which Xalan translates to a method named "setMethod" of the 
corresponding attribute object; this method is then used to set the 
value of the attribute. So in essence Xalan is failing to set the value 
of the "method" attribute of <xsl:output>. I have no idea why.

If you're not using Xalan directly, then something in the framework 
you're using must be doing it. Check this website: 
http://vaclavb.blogspot.com/2010/02/xslt-using-xalan-on-google-app-engine.html 
which seemed to give some useful hints in the right direction. It 
certainly seems to be related to the interaction between Google App 
Engine and Xalan.

Good luck,
Nathan

Daniel Reznick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm developing an web application (using Java) on the Google App 
> Engine...
>
> The thing is the my logs are full of this weird stderr message
>
> <stderr>: SystemId Unknown; Line #57; Column #31; Failed calling 
> setMethod method
>
> I did googled a lot and asked this question on many places, but no one 
> knew the reason why
>
> and recently I bumped into several posts with similar stderr that was 
> caused by Xalan , the stderr were of the same structure :
>
> <stderr>: SystemId Unknown; Line #XXX ; Column #YYY; Failed calling 
> setMethod method
>
> So I was wondering... any chance that the stderr message that I'm 
> getting is cause by Xalan?
>
> I'm not making explicit use of Xalan, by I have added the following 
> files o the lib folder (in order to run JSF2 application on GAE)
>
>     * serializer.jar 
>     * xalan.jar
>     * xercesImpl.jar
>     * xml-apis.jar
>     * xsltc.jar
>
>
> Help will be much appreciated...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel.
>
>
>
>

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Nathan Nadeau
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Software Development
Gleim Publications, Inc.
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