Joseph,
would you have any further thought on this?
Thanks,
A.
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:35 +0200, Arnaud Diederen wrote:
>
> Joseph,
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 08:59 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Why not use a stylesheet to style your stylesheet and bring the
> > includes into a single document, rather than trying to work with
> > Xalan's low-level data structures (which weren't really designed to
> > be written back out as XSL)?
>
>
> If I understand your suggestion correctly, what I should implement is
> some sort of mechanism that will "replace" xsl:include directives with
> the contents of the document they reference. Is that correct?
>
> If that's the case then it's just some sort of query-replace, and I
> lose the benefits of using an XSL processor, such as: namespace/prefix
> resolution, etc...
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> A.
>
>
>
>
> >
> > I admit I may be biased -- I wrote the "styling stylesheets" article
> > on IBM's XML Developerworks page (http://www.ibm.com/xml) -- but
> > this really does strike me as being both much easier and more
> > portable.
> >
> > ______________________________________
> > "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong,
> > A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..."
> > -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish
> > (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)
> >
> >
> > From:
> > Arnaud Diederen
> > <[email protected]>
> > To:
> > [email protected]
> > Date:
> > 08/03/2010 08:47 AM
> > Subject:
> > Serializing a (composed) XSL
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Gentlemen,
> >
> > I have a web application that uses, on the browser-side, XSL
> > transforms.
> > Alas, because of a little issue in WebKit (affecting Google Chrome,
> > Safari, ...), I cannot use composed XSLTs (i.e., XSLs that
> > <xsl:include>s other bits of XSL) in Chrome.
> >
> > I thought I'd give xalan-java a try at solving my problem, by
> > "composing" the XSLT bits into one big XSL, on the server-side.
> > That composed XSL could then be used by all browsers.
> >
> > Here's what I had in mind:
> > * get xalan-java to load the XSL.
> > * get xalan-java to load its children.
> > * dump the composed XSL as String, or byte [].
> >
> > And here's my first attempt at this task:
> >
> >
> > TransformerFactory tFactory =
> > TransformerFactory.newInstance();
> > Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer
> > (new StreamSource("/path/to/xslt/common.xslt"));
> >
> > TransformerImpl transformerImpl = (TransformerImpl)
> > transformer;
> > StylesheetRoot stylesheetRoot =
> > transformerImpl.getStylesheet();
> > stylesheetRoot.recompose();
> > Document stylesheetDoc =
> > stylesheetRoot.getOwnerDocument();
> > W3CNodeHelper nodeHelper = new W3CNodeHelper();
> > String out =
> > nodeHelper.dumpAsString(stylesheetDoc.getChildNodes().item(0));
> >
> >
> >
> > (Where the "W3CNodeHelper" thingy is just one of our tools I use to
> > dump the document.)
> >
> > Unfortunately this fails, as:
> > java.lang.RuntimeException: ElemTemplateElement error: Function not
> > supported!
> > at
> > org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemTemplateElement.error(ElemTemplateElement.java:223)
> > at
> > org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemTemplateElement.error(ElemTemplateElement.java:236)
> > at
> > org.apache.xml.utils.UnImplNode.getAttributes(UnImplNode.java:641)
> > at
> > com.ionicsoft.xml.dom.W3CNodeHelper.dumpElement(W3CNodeHelper.java:992)
> > at com.ionicsoft.xml.dom.W3CNodeHelper.dump(W3CNodeHelper.java:851)
> > at com.ionicsoft.xml.dom.W3CNodeHelper.dump(W3CNodeHelper.java:825)
> > at
> > com.ionicsoft.xml.dom.W3CNodeHelper.dumpAsString(W3CNodeHelper.java:802)
> > at com.Test.main(Test.java:43)
> >
> >
> > I guess this method is far from ideal. Would anyone have any
> > information on how I could achieve what I'm trying to?
> >
> > Thanks a bunch for any info/pointer!
> >
> > Regards,
> > A.
> >
> >
> >
> >
