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Using saxon9-dom.jar? Is it really necessary?

Added by Anonymous almost 14 years ago

Legacy ID: #9500562 Legacy Poster: https://me.yahoo.com/a/MawjAmBx ()

Hello, during my current project I faced an issue concerning XmlUnit (a lib for xml assertions). When I want to compare two xml strings. By calling this code: XMLUnit.setIgnoreWhitespace(true); XMLUnit.setNormalizeWhitespace(true); XMLAssert.assertXMLEqual(expectedResultXMLString, actualResultXML); I got an exception "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: When a DOMSource is used, saxon9-dom.jar must be on the classpath" from the saxon lib I included. I'm using maven, so the dependency for the saxon lib is. First question at this point. Am I using the right one? net.sourceforge.saxon saxon 9.1.0.8 provided After a little internet research I've found some posts saying that the saxon9-dom.jar was included into the saxon lib I'm currently using. Is that true? In order to continue with my implementation I decided to include the saxon9-dom into my classpath, but I could not found any maven dependency. Is there really no dependency available? Finally I found the jar and everything works fine. Now, I would like to know if that is the right way to deal with that issue. Is the saxon9-dom.jar really an extension to the normal saxon lib or did I miss something? Do I have to deploy the saxon9-dom.jar as third party lib into my local maven repo? Thank you very much for your help. Greetings Gerardo


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RE: Using saxon9-dom.jar? Is it really necessary? - Added by Anonymous almost 14 years ago

Legacy ID: #9501372 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

Firstly, there is no maven hosting of Saxon that is supported by Saxonica. Individuals have posted some Saxon releases to Maven repositories in the past, usually with no respect for the licensing conditions which require that you can't distribute a JAR file without the accompanying legal notices, and often with no detailed attention paid to the cross-jar dependencies. The latest release is 9.3.0.4. You might of course still have valid reasons for using Saxon 9.1.0.8, for example if your application depends on it. In 9.3 (and 9.2, I think) the extra saxon9dom.jar is not needed (the code was integrated into the main JAR file). But if you're using the 9.1 branch, then you need the separate JAR file. Please download from SourceForge, not from third-party sites.

RE: Using saxon9-dom.jar? Is it really necessary? - Added by Anonymous almost 14 years ago

Legacy ID: #9501530 Legacy Poster: https://me.yahoo.com/a/MawjAmBx ()

Great. Thanks for the fast reply. Thanks for the advices. It helped a lot. I'm fascinated to seeing that you reply on almost every post within some hours. Good job. Ciao, Gerardo

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