Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

XML Transformations in Java

The final crucial component of the Java API For XML Processing (JAXP) is the ability to programmatically transform XML documents via XSLT. Details of XSLT transformations are covered in detail in Chapter 9, “Transforming XML Data into Other Formats with XSLT.” This section focuses on methods for using Java to produce these XSLT transformations.

The reference implementation for the JAXP transformation engine is the Apache Xerces Xalan XSLT engine, and it is the transformation engine that will be used for the example in this section. The Apache Xalan XSLT engine source code is made available under the open source Apache License and is contained in the Java XML Pack that is available for downloading at http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html ...