[opencms-dev] Newbie: Help Needed

[Alexander Kandzior]

> >>We've discussed this quite often on this list -- the short answer is
> >>that 5.0 was designed to run on Tomcat 4.x. If you can, you 
> ought to 
> >>move back to Tomcat 4.1.27 or so.
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm, it ws not designed for Tomcat 4.x, this was the only Tomcat 
> > available when it was designed. But it should run with 5.x 
> > also. The encoding issue is certainly not Tomcat - version related.
> 
> I should have said designed against the servlet spec of which the 4.x 
> series was the reference platform -- that was your justification in 
> previous posts for why OpenCms does not work on some other servlet 
> containers.

As for the encoding, this is not servlet spec related. My "justification"
(if I need one) is that the code that cases the trouble with the encoding
uses a Xerces 1.x feature and Tomcat 5.x ships with Xerces 2.x installed.
There was a change in the Xerces API from 1.x to 2.x that affect encoding
selection. Only recently (2 weeks ago) someone finally contributed some code
that actually appears to solve the issue. Turns out hat in Xerces 1.x you do
"document.getEncoding()" but in Xerces 2.x you must do
"document.getXmlEncoding()". 


Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com