samples/SimpleTransform/SimpleTransform.java

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import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

/**
 *  Use the TraX interface to perform a transformation in the simplest manner possible
 *  (3 statements).
 */
public class SimpleTransform
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
    throws TransformerException, TransformerConfigurationException, 
           FileNotFoundException, IOException
  {  
  // Use the static TransformerFactory.newInstance() method to instantiate 
  // a TransformerFactory. The javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory 
  // system property setting determines the actual class to instantiate --
  // org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.
	TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
	
	// Use the TransformerFactory to instantiate a Transformer that will work with  
	// the stylesheet you specify. This method call also processes the stylesheet
  // into a compiled Templates object.
	Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource("birds.xsl"));

	// Use the Transformer to apply the associated Templates object to an XML document
	// (foo.xml) and write the output to a file (foo.out).
	transformer.transform(new StreamSource("birds.xml"), new StreamResult(new FileOutputStream("birds.out")));
	
	System.out.println("************* The result is in birds.out *************");
  }
}