We have a historical issue with the 1.3 to 1.4 conversion giving errors on large files
Most recently issue 6383 has been reported ( http://argouml.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6383) We have previous issues 3992, 4188, 5188 I've discovered replacing Suns default xalan processor with an old version of Saxon resolves this problem. How should we move forward on this? Options I see. 3) Fix the stylesheets so that they work with xalan The obvious favourite choice but I think if we understood the issue we would have done this already. 1) Distribute Saxon B and continue to use this for XSLT processing Simplest option. Disadvantage is lack of support. Saxon has dropped some functionality that we are using from their latest releases. This is from their website. Saxon-HE does not offer all the capabilities that were present in Saxon-B. Most notably, support for Saxon extension functions and other extensions was dropped, as was the capability for writing extension functions that rely on dynamic loading of Java or .NET code (a new facility for "integrated extension functions" is however available). Users whose code relies on these features of Saxon-B should either purchase the Professional Edition product or stick with Saxon-B: the latest release of Saxon-B is 9.1.0.8, and although there are no plans to develop it further or maintain it, it will remain available indefinitely. 2) Fix the stylesheets so that they are compatible with Saxon HE and distribute that. At least we are now fully supported but we have more work to do in some complex stylesheets and still need to distribute Saxon. I'm not sure if the xslt extensions used can be replaced easily with standard xslt. 4) Drop the UML1.3 to UML1.4 conversion from the standard ArgoUML distribution and move it to an optional module. If a user tries to load a 1.3 file then they would be prompted to download and install this module. Advantage - smaller footprint for core ArgoUML with Saxon only in the module download. Disadvantage - another module to maintain. Any thoughts....? ------------------------------------------------------ http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=450&dsMessageId=2903652 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [dev-unsubscr...@argouml.tigris.org]. To be allowed to post to the list contact the mailing list moderator, email: [li...@tigris.org]
