org.apache.xalan.lib

Class PipeDocument

public class PipeDocument extends Object

PipeDocument is a Xalan extension element to set stylesheet params and pipes an XML document through a series of 1 or more stylesheets. PipeDocument is invoked from a stylesheet as the {@link #pipeDocument pipeDocument extension element}. It is accessed by specifying a namespace URI as follows:
    xmlns:pipe="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/PipeDocument"
 

Author: Donald Leslie

Method Summary
voidpipeDocument(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem)
Extension element for piping an XML document through a series of 1 or more transformations.
voidusePipe(Vector vTHandler, String source, String target)
Uses a Vector of TransformerHandlers to pipe XML input document through a series of 1 or more transformations.

Method Detail

pipeDocument

public void pipeDocument(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem)
Extension element for piping an XML document through a series of 1 or more transformations.
Common usage pattern: A stylesheet transforms a listing of documents to be
 transformed into a TOC. For each document in the listing calls the pipeDocument
 extension element to pipe that document through a series of 1 or more stylesheets 
 to the desired output document.
 
 Syntax:
 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:pipe="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/PipeDocument"
                extension-element-prefixes="pipe">
 ...
 <pipe:pipeDocument   source="source.xml" target="target.xml">
   <stylesheet href="ss1.xsl">
     <param name="param1" value="value1"/>
   </stylesheet>
   <stylesheet href="ss2.xsl">
     <param name="param1" value="value1"/>
     <param name="param2" value="value2"/>
   </stylesheet>
   <stylesheet href="ss1.xsl"/>     
 </pipe:pipeDocument>
 
 Notes:

usePipe

public void usePipe(Vector vTHandler, String source, String target)
Uses a Vector of TransformerHandlers to pipe XML input document through a series of 1 or more transformations. Called by {@link #pipeDocument}.

Parameters: vTHandler Vector of Transformation Handlers (1 per stylesheet). source absolute URI to XML input target absolute path to transformation output.

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