See the Xalan documentation's description of "extensions", which allow
Xalan to call Java code.
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensions.html
However, if you just want to read data from another XML document, XSLT has
a built-in document() function which can be used for that purpose.
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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