Scott Harrison
Spring 2002

I am using XML::Xalan (www.cpan.org) to support 
rigorous and elegant XML (and thus metadata) conversion
via stylesheets (XSLT).

I am using Xalan C++ libraries 1.3 from
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/index.html.
(http://xml.apache.org/dist/xalan-c/Xalan-C_1_3-linux.tar.gz)

For the Perl module, I am using
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ED/EDPRATOMO/XML-Xalan-0.44.tar.gz
from CPAN.

Compilation was a bit tricky on RedHat 7.2 (due in part to
the glibc assumptions which are no longer supported).

Here are current instructions:

Download and inflate the Xalan-C++ tarball in /home/harris41/install, then
  export XERCESCROOT=/home/harris41/install/xerces-c1_6_0-linux
  export XALANCROOT=/home/harris41/install/xml-xalan/c

Download, inflate, and enter the XML-Xalan perl directory:
perl Makefile.PL
edit the Makefile and remove "-instance=static" from the CCFLAGS
make
make test
Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/03error.t       0    11     3    2  66.67%  2-3
t/12sv.t          0    11     3    1  33.33%  3
7 subtests skipped.
Failed 2/19 test scripts, 89.47% okay. 3/80 subtests failed, 96.25% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29
bash-2.05$ 

(works okay...)

make install

CAVEAT (DO NOT ATTEMPT TO make TARGET="/somewhereotherthanroot" install)

Otherwise, not-so-good is produced:
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/tmptarget/share/man/man3/tmptarget/share/man/man3/tmptarget/share/man/man3/tmptarget/share/man/man3/tmptarget/share/man/man3/tmptarget/share/man/man3/tmptarget/share/man/man3/XML::Xalan::XObjectFactory.3pm