Please see http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/faq.html#faq-15 which points out that you have something wrong with your XML parser - whichever parser is actually being used by your servlet. Remember that the servlet engine (Tomcat or whatever) may re-map your classpath in non-obvious ways, and that certain Tomcat builds had problem just like this one, since the parser the Tomcat build had was back-level or had the wrong defaults (I can't remember which, but searching either the xalan-dev or tomcat-dev lists at marc.theaimsgroup.com will certainly have a similar problem and solution)
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