RE: Trax and how to pass parameters to

You can't. There's a recent thread on the Saxon forum about this:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1027851&forum_id=94027

The answer is, instead of generating your transformation as an XMLFilter,
use a SAXTransformerHandler. You can still pipeline transformations, and in
many ways the code is easier.

Other options:

(a) In Saxon 7.x, you can cast the XMLFilter to a net.sf.saxon.Filter, which
provides access to getTransformer().setParameter()

(b) Pass the parameter values down the pipeline so they arrive as part of
the source document

(c) Write a URIResolver to deliver the parameter values in response to a
call on document()

Michael Kay

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# Subject:  Trax and how to pass parameters to
# 
# Can anyone tell me how to pass parameters to Trax (javax) if you are
# using a filter? I have included my sample code below.
# 
# Note that I have actually compiled one stylesheet and passed a parameter
# to it, but I can't actually use the passed parameters in my chain below.
# 
# I asked this question on the Sun mailing list with no responses. It
# seems using XMLFilter is still kind of a black art!
# 
# Thanks
# 
# Paul
# 
# 
#     Templates stylesheet1 = tfactory.newTemplates(new
# StreamSource(xslID_1));
#     Transformer transformer1 = stylesheet1.newTransformer();
#     transformer1.setParameter("date", "works");
# 
#      // If one success, assume all will succeed.
#     if (tfactory.getFeature(SAXSource.FEATURE))
#     {
#       SAXTransformerFactory stf = (SAXTransformerFactory)tfactory;
#       XMLReader reader=null;
# 
#       // Use JAXP1.1 ( if possible )
#       try {
# 	  javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory factory=
# 	      javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
# 	  factory.setNamespaceAware( true );
# 	  javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser jaxpParser=
# 	      factory.newSAXParser();
# 	  reader=jaxpParser.getXMLReader();
# 
#       } catch( javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException ex ) {
# 	  throw new org.xml.sax.SAXException( ex );
#       } catch( javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError ex1 ) {
# 	  throw new org.xml.sax.SAXException( ex1.toString() );
#       } catch( NoSuchMethodError ex2 ) {
#       }
#       if( reader==null ) reader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
# 
#       XMLFilter filter1 = stf.newXMLFilter(stylesheet1);
#       XMLFilter filter2 = stf.newXMLFilter(new StreamSource(xslID_2));
#       XMLFilter filter3 = stf.newXMLFilter(new StreamSource(xslID_3));
# 
# 
# 
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