Re: xml declaration appearance inside attribute values? (long)

[Alex Z]

I've been able to reproduce my "xml declaration in attributes" problem 
by forcing what I believe to be happening when there is a classloader 
issue.

in org/apache/xalan/transformer/TransformerImpl.java:
 private OutputProperties m_textformat = new OutputProperties(Method.Text);
But if the OutputProperties class can't find the output_text.properties 
resource, it will return the default - which is the xml properties.

Later, in TransformerImpl.transformToString(), m_textformat is used when 
getting a Serializer.  transformToString is called elsewhere (such as 
org/apache/xalan/templates/ElemAttribute.java), so I think this can lead 
to the xml declaration problem.

Using the following diff, I can consistently get output such as:
<a href="<?xml version=%221.0%22 encoding=%22UTF-8%22?>%0A">
diff -C2 
xalan-j_2_4_1/src/org/apache/xalan/templates/OutputProperties.java 
xalan-j_2_4_1-patched/src/org/apache/xalan/templates/OutputProperties.java
*** xalan-j_2_4_1/src/org/apache/xalan/templates/OutputProperties.java 
Thu Oct 31 14:26:10 2002
--- 
xalan-j_2_4_1-patched/src/org/apache/xalan/templates/OutputProperties.java 
 Tue Nov 26 12:43:41 2002
***************
*** 349,353 ****
              if (null == m_text_properties)  // double check
              {
!               fileName = "output_text.properties";
                m_text_properties = loadPropertiesFile(fileName,
                                                       m_xml_properties);
--- 349,353 ----
              if (null == m_text_properties)  // double check
              {
!               fileName = "output_xml.properties";
                m_text_properties = loadPropertiesFile(fileName,
                                                       m_xml_properties);

So I think that my tentative conclusions are:
-xalan can indeed produce this output
-I should look into fixing classloading in my environment.. :-)
Alex