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<P><B>The main Xalan-Java 1 compatability package</B> -- facilities for setting up and performing XSL transformations.</P>
<P>Use one of the {@link org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTProcessorFactory} static getProcessor methods to
instantiate an {@link org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTProcessor}. The XSLTProcessor interface defines the
XSLT processor API. You should never need to call the underlying implementation
({@link org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl}) directly.</P>
<P>Instantiate {@link org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTInputSource} objects for the XML input and the XSL
stylesheet, and an {@link org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTResultTarget} object for the transformation output.
You may construct these objects with a variety of containers/formats, including files or URLs, character
streams,byte streams, SAX input streams or document handlers, and a DOM tree.</P>
<P>As a general rule, use the XSLTProcessor process method to perform a transformation, thereby filling the
XSLTResultTarget object. For repeated transformations, to gather information from the stylesheet before you
perform the transformation, or to set up the processor to function as a SAX document handler, use the
XSLTProcessor processStylesheet method to compile the XSL stylesheet, which returns a
{@link org.apache.xalan.xslt.StylesheetRoot} object with its own process method.</P>
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