Hi Michael,
 
I ran the transformation the same way as when using Saxon 6.5 with the following Java code from Netbeans 6.1: 
.......
SAXBuilder stateBuilder = new SAXBuilder("org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser", false); 
FileInputStream hobbiesIS = new FileInputStream(hobbiesXmlFile);
BufferedInputStream hobbiesBIS = new BufferedInputStream(hobbiesIS);
Document hobbiesOriginaljdomDocument = stateBuilder.build(hobbiesBIS);
 
TransformerFactory hobbiesFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
FileInputStream hobbiesStyleSheetIS = new FileInputStream(hobbiesStyleSheet);
BufferedInputStream hobbiesStyleSheetBIS = new BufferedInputStream(hobbiesStyleSheetIS);
 
Transformer hobbiesTransformer = stateFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(hobbiesStyleSheetBIS));
 
JDOMSource hobbiesSource = new JDOMSource(hobbiesOriginaljdomDocument);
JDOMResult hobbiesResult = new JDOMResult();
 
stateTransformer.transform(hobbiesSource, hobbiesResult);
 
Nothing has been changed apart from replacing saxon.jar, saxon-jdom.jar, saxpath.jar with saxon9.jar, saxon9-jdom.jar, saxon9-xpath.jar in the compilation CLASSPATH.
 
I run this program (SHIFT-F6 or RUN => Run file) to start transformation in Netbeans.
 
Thanks,
Jack



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From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
To: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Sent: Friday, 6 February, 2009 9:23:09 AM
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions


How are you running the transformation?
 
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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From: Jack Bush [mailto:netbeansfan@y...] 
Sent: 05 February 2009 19:23
To: Michael Kay
Cc: xml-dev@lists..xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions


Hi Michael,

Your are right and I have reverted the XML version in the stylesheet to 1.0. However, I am back to where I started from by getting the can find empty() again.

Below is the detail of my CLASSPATH:

E:\Software Development\XML\tagsoup-1.2.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\JDOM\jdom-1.1\build\jdom.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\JDOM\jdom-1.1\lib\jaxen-jdom.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\JDOM\jdom-1.1\lib\jaxen-core.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\JDOM\jdom-1.1\lib\xalan.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\Saxon\9.1\saxon9-jdom.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\Saxon\9.1\saxon9-xpath.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\Saxon\9.1\saxon9.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\JDOM\jdom-1.1\lib\xerces.jar;E:\Software Development\XML\JDOM\jdom-1.1\lib\saxpath.jar

Any idea on which jar file is missing?

Thanks a lot,

Jack



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From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
To: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Sent: Friday, 6 February, 2009 2:07:45 AM
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions


It sounds as if you changed the XML version to "2.0" when you intended to change the XSLT version.
 
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


________________________________
From: Jack Bush [mailto:netbeansfan@y...] 
Sent: 05 February 2009 12:30
To: Michael Kay
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions


Hi Michael,
 
I encountered the following error when switching over to Saxon 9.1 Open Source version so that I could use the empty() as suggested:
 [Fatal Error] javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource:1:20: XML version "2.0" is not supported, only XML 1.0 is supported.
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax..xml.transform.TransformerException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: XML version "2.0" is not supported, only XML 1.0 is supported.
at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl..newTransformer(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:795)
 
Below is where StreamSource is used in my Java application:
 
Transformer hobbiesTransformer = hobbiesFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(hobbiesStyleSheetBIS));
JDOMSource hobbiesSource = new JDOMSource(hobbiesOriginaljdomDocument);
JDOMResult hobbiesResult = new JDOMResult();
hobbiesTransformer.transform(hobbiesSource, hobbiesResult);
 
What is the alternative to using StreamSource in XSLT 2.0?
 
Many thanks again,
Jack




________________________________
From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
To: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>; butlerdi@g...
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Sent: Thursday, 5 February, 2009 12:26:02 AM
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions

<xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbie:']|ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']">


Now the only question left is the second half ( ii ) of the original post
included below:

    

    ( ii ) I also like to add a default generic value for any missing
element. Say if there are no 

    <p><strong>Hobbies:</strong></p> in such document, yet I still would
like to generate a 

    null element such as <hobbies>Unknown</hobbies>.  

    
You need to do this at the next level up, where you are applying-templates
to the p elements. Something like

<xsl:variable name="hobbies" select="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$hobbies"/>
<xsl:if test="empty($hobbies)">
  ... default output goes here ...
</xsl:if>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

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