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RE: parsing xsl file in java

• To: "'Zahida Parveen'" <zahida@a...>
• Subject: RE: parsing xsl file in java
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:03:40 -0000
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <002601c3fd23$2c9f5cb0$a300a8c0@zahida>
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Take a look at the JAXP interface, specifically the classes in
javax.xml.parsers and javax.xml.transform.

There's a choice of products that implement this interface, e.g. Saxon,
Xalan, Oracle, jd.xslt

JAXP itself doesn't currently provide a method like selectNodes() to execute
an XPath expression against a DOM, but many products have such a method.

However, the approach you are using of modifying the stylesheet on the fly
before running it is very inefficient in a servlet environment, because it
means you have to compile the stylesheet each time it's used. This is not a
design I would recommend. But to give you a preferred design, I would need
to know what you are trying to achieve.

Generally the xsl-list at mulberrytech.com is a better place for this kind
of question.

Michael Kay

# -----Original Message-----
# From: Zahida Parveen [mailto:zahida@a...]
# Sent: 27 February 2004 11:17
# Cc: xml-dev@l...
# Subject:  parsing xsl file in java
# 
# Thanx to all who answered my previous query "parsing xsl file in java".
# Let
# me explain again what I want to know. Below is a code segment in ASP:
# 
# 1.  set  style = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
# 2.  style.async = false
# 3.  style.setProperty
# "SelectionNamespaces","xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'"
# 4.  style.load styleFile
# 
# 5.  Set objRoot = style.documentElement
# 6.  Set objField =
# style.selectSingleNode("/xsl:stylesheet/xsl:include[@href='INCLUDEPATH']")
# 7.  objField.setAttribute "href", IncTemplatePath
# 
# >From this code you can see that an xsl file named "styleFile" is loaded
# by
# parser. On line # 6, the xsl:include node whose attribute
# href='INCLUDEPATH'
# is read. On line # 7, its attribute href is assigned a new value from
# variable IncTemplatePath.
# 
# I want to do this whole thing done in ASP code above, in Java Servlets. I
# am
# new to Java Servlets and dont have much idea about Java Parsers also. I
# have
# heard about Xalan. Is it FREE. How to install and configure to use it.
# 
# Please help me to do this thing. I ll be waiting for response from all of
# you.
# 
# Thanks,
# Zahida
# 
# 
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