I don't understand. Why is a FreeBSD port needed? It's Java. Or were you
talking about the C versions? You didn't say.
A search of http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ shows that there are in fact
FreeBSD ports of Xerces (1.4.1) and Xalan (2.1.0) already, and they don't
even seem to be that necessary, since there are no patches to apply.
I did a quick, not-exactly-thorough test of Xerces on two different
FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE systems, one with the stock JDK 1.1.8 that ships with
the OS and one with the JDK 1.2.2 "beta" from the ports collection. Both
tests worked just fine, as long as /usr/local/jdk1.1.8 or /usr/local/java
were in your path (so you can access java and javac)...
(with JDK 1.1.8)
fetch http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/Xerces-J-bin.2.0.0.beta.tar.gz
tar xzf Xerces-J-bin.2.0.0.beta.tar.gz
cd xerces-2_0_0_beta
javac -classpath /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/lib/classes.zip:xerces.jar
samples/sax/Counter.java
cd samples
java -classpath /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/lib/classes.zip:../xerces.jar:. sax.Counter
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116.xml
(with JDK 1.2.2 from the ports collection)
fetch http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/Xerces-J-bin.2.0.0.beta.tar.gz
tar xzf Xerces-J-bin.2.0.0.beta.tar.gz
cd xerces-2_0_0_beta
javac -classpath ./xerces.jar samples/sax/Counter.java
cd samples
java -classpath ../xerces.jar:. sax.Counter
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116.xml
- Mike
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