XSLTransformer.java - A Simple XSLT Transformation Program

XML Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 5.10, by Dr. Herong Yang

XML Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟XSLTransformer.java - A Simple XSLT Transformation Program

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use the XSLT implementation in JDK 1.4 to write a simple XSLT transformation Java program.

Here is my first XSLT transformation program in Java:

/* XSLTransformer.java
 * Copyright (c) 2002-2014 HerongYang.com, All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
class XSLTransformer {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      try {
         File sf = new File(args[0]); // source file
         File rf = new File(args[1]); // result file
         File tf = new File(args[2]); // template file
         TransformerFactory f = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
         Transformer t = f.newTransformer(new StreamSource(tf));
         Source s = new StreamSource(sf);
         Result r = new StreamResult(rf);
         t.transform(s,r);
      } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
         System.out.println(e.toString());      
      } catch (TransformerException e) {
         System.out.println(e.toString());
      }
   }
}

Let's try this program with my hello.xml as the source file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<p>Hello world!</p>

and my hello.xsl as the stylesheet file that contains the transformation templates:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:template match="p">Hello world.! - From hello.xsl.</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Compile and run XSLTransformer.java with JDK 10 and 1.8:

C:\herong>java XSLTransformer hello.xml hello.out hello.xsl

C:\herong>type hello.out
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Hello world! - From hello.xsl.

Cool. XSLTransformer.java is working!

Last update: 2018.

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