Inside XSLT

Interfacing Xalan to Java

Xalan is actually one of the easier XSLT processors to interface to Java, despite its size. To show how this works, I create a new Java class, xalanjava, which you can call like this to perform an XSLT transformation:

C:\>java xalanjava planets.xml planets.xsl planets.html 

To create an XSLT transformation, I start by creating an object of the TransformerFactoryclass in the xalanjavaclass:

 import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import ...