Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

Templates

Synopsis

This interface represents a set of transformation instructions for transforming a Source document into a Result document. The javax.xml.transform package is nominally independent of type of transformation, but in practice, an object of this type always represents the compiled form of an XSLT stylesheet. Obtain a Templates object from a TransformerFactory object, or with a javax.xml.transform.sax.TemplatesHandler. Once you have a Templates object, you can use the newTransformer( ) method to create a Transformer object for applying the templates to a Source to produce a Result document.

getOutputProperties( ) returns a java.util.Properties object that defines name/value pairs specifying details about how a textual version of the Result document should be produced. These properties are specified in an XSLT stylesheet with the <xsl:output> element. The constants defined by the OutputKeys are legal output property names. The returned Properties object contains explicitly properties directly, and contains default values in a parent Properties object. This means that if you query a property value with getProperty( ), you’ll get an explicitly specified value of a default value. On the other hand, if you query a property with the get( ) method (inherited by Properties from its superclass) you’ll get a property value if it was explictly specified in the stylesheet, or null if it was not specified. The returned Properties object is a clone of the internal value, so you ...