david,
> I don't understand why you had to download the binary distribution for 1.2
> -- there's a source-only distribution in the same directory as the binary.
> Did you not find it? We provided a source-only distribution for this very
> reason:
>
> http://xml.apache.org/dist/xalan-c/Xalan-C_1_2-src.tar.gz
>
> http://xml.apache.org/dist/xalan-c/Xalan-C_1_2-src.zip
i have to admit i simply missed that (and i was remembering that the
documentation for 1.1 explicitly said to download one binary version to
get the source version).
great my "complaints" are already history.
regards,
georg