The simplest answer may be to write a Java extension that encapsulates
fully preparing the object, rather than spreading it across several
extension calls. The fact that you can access Java objects directly in
Xalan doesn't mean that's the best solution for complex operations.
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk