Bug#552032: ant: xslt task cannot use Commons resolver

[brian m. carlson]

Package: ant
Version: 1.7.1-4
Severity: normal

I use ant to build my website, which includes transforming DocBook 5
into XHTML via ant's xslt task.  For several reasons, I want to use
catalogs.  Consequently, I've created a file called .antrc in my home
directory and included the following line in it:

  LOCALCLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/xml-commons-resolver-1.1.jar:/etc/xml/resolver"

However, ant still does not use the resolver.  In
org.apache.tools.ant.types.XMLCatalog, getCatalogResolver seems to fail
at the line (approximately line 510):

  clazz = Class.forName(APACHE_RESOLVER, true, baseResolverLoader);

with the debugging message:

  Apache resolver library not found, internal resolver will be used
  Failed to load Apache resolver: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tools.ant.types.resolver.ApacheCatalogResolver

My strong preference is that the Commons resolver always be used if it
is installed on the machine; there really is no reason not to.  However,
if that is judged to be infeasible for whatever reason, I'd prefer that
it at least work in some case and have it be documented how to make it
work.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ant depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless [jav 1.6-33         Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  gcj-4.4-jre-headless [jav 4.4.1-6        Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  gcj-jre-headless [java2-r 4:4.3.3-9+nmu1 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  gij-4.3 [java2-runtime-he 4.3.4-4        The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat-headless  1.0.80-5.1     Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  libxerces2-java           2.9.1-4        Validating XML parser for Java wit
ii  openjdk-6-jre-headless [j 6b16-1.6.1-2   OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo

Versions of packages ant recommends:
pn  ant-gcj                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  ant-optional                  1.7.1-4    Java based build tool like make - 

Versions of packages ant suggests:
ii  ant-doc                   1.7.1-4        Java based build tool like make - 
ii  default-jdk [java-sdk]    1.6-33         Standard Java or Java compatible D
ii  gcj-4.3 [java-compiler]   4.3.4-4        The GNU compiler for Java(TM)
ii  gcj-jdk [java-sdk]        4:4.3.3-9+nmu1 gcj and classpath development tool
ii  java-gcj-compat-dev [java 1.0.80-5.1     Java runtime environment with GCJ
ii  openjdk-6-jdk [java-sdk]  6b16-1.6.1-2   OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)

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