Description of problem: com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl fails to parse (apparently) valid xslt Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-34.b17.fc13 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. javac demo.java 2. java demo.java demo.xsl Actual results: TransformerFactory is 'com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl' XSL is'/tmp/filter/example.xsl' ERROR: 'file:/tmp/filter/example.xsl: line 4: Cannot parse attribute value template '{translate(@name,'{}','_')}'.' FATAL ERROR: 'Could not compile stylesheet' javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: Could not compile stylesheet at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:829) at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTransformer(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:618) at demo.main(demo.java:12) Expected results: TransformerFactory is 'com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl' XSL is'/tmp/filter/example.xsl' Additional info: Overridding the built-in xslt implementation, e.g. export CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/xalan-j2.jar:. and all is well java demo /tmp/filter/example.xsl TransformerFactory is 'org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl' XSL is'/tmp/filter/example.xsl' The problem is with the appearance of braces {} inside the translate string.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 573619 ***