Description of problem: The current version of xml-maven-plugin is 1.0 and it requires saxon in version 8.7 by upstream. In Fedora Rawhide we have version 9.3.0.4. When trying to build new HornetQ (2.4.0.Beta1) it fails at this line: https://github.com/hornetq/hornetq/blob/HornetQ_2_4_0_Beta1/hornetq-core-client/src/main/resources/hqDefaults.xsl#L20 Build log: https://gist.github.com/goldmann/6534492 When I replaced Fedora's saxon.jar with upstream version 8.7 I could compile HornetQ without any issues. If there will a fixed version - I'm happy to test it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): saxon-9.3.0.4-8.fc20.noarch
It seems this is not a bug, the hornetq pom file was missing the <transformerFactory/> element in configuration for the xml-maven-plugin: <configuration> <transformerFactory>net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl</transformerFactory> <transformationSets> <transformationSet> <dir>xml</dir> <stylesheet>it8.xsl</stylesheet> </transformationSet> </transformationSets> </configuration> Closing.