I think from thread I started about <!ENTITY...> refs and another thread on a near subject.. Saxon (or any other processor) is not going to do what I need it to do regarding entity and other references in a doctype structure.

So, maybe I can write a little java and do it myself?
(probably not, but I'll give it a try)

I pulled the saxon9.0.0.1 source down and tried: ant bj and it failed almost instantly with:

My question is, why is saxon8 even referenced (and what is "saxon8.x"?) and how should I set up my build environment so it will all compile?

Apologies if there is a build readme tells me all this, but I couldn't find such a file in the archive.



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A question that is so specifically about Saxon should best be asked on the saxon-help list or forum at Sourceforge.

I'm afraid that it's semi-deliberate that I don't make it especially easy to build Saxon from source code: I reckon if you can't work out how to do it, then you probably shouldn't be doing it at all. Certainly if you want me to help you make modifications to the Saxon source code, then you will first have to convince me that the changes are a good idea, which you haven't done here.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I think I was not understanding how to write extensions for Saxon.
Reading more and I believe I can write Java classes and reference them at run time, that I don't have to compile anything into Saxon itself.

So I withdraw the question. Believe me, I don't want to build it if I don't have to.

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