hooray XSLT now part of JDK 1.5

XSLT now part of JDK 1.5 itself.
(Thanks god, we don’t have to download xalan, xerces etc.
& setting big class paths to author style sheets.)

Minus points are Java implementation of xalan sucks badly.
It is working fine for simple transformation use cases &
but failing for the complex cases.

(I will write those test cases in the next post)

Following is the sample Test.java to transform the input xml in to HTML ( or another other output) using java Xalan libs.

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

public class Test
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{

Source source = new StreamSource(new FileInputStream("C://AE_html.xsl"));

Transformer t = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(source);

Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(new FileInputStream("c://users.xml"));

System.out.println("Transforming...");
t.transform(new DOMSource(doc),new StreamResult ( new FileOutputStream("C://users.html")) ); }
}


//System.out.println( "doc as text content"+ doc.getTextContent() );
//t.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(System.out));