>        at
com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.dom.SAXImpl.startElement(Unknown
Source)
> What to try next?

Give Saxon a go instead of Xalan... just drop the jar it into your
endorsed dir, or change your code to explicitly use
net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImp(), and then try the transform
again.



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Andrew Welch
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