How to attach XSL into XML generated by XMLEncoder?

Question

Hi everyone,
I used XMLEncoder to generate an XML file. But XMLEncoder does not provide anyway to attach XSL style sheet before generating the XML. The only way I can attach XSL style sheet is to manually edit the XML file, which I do not want to do. Is there anyway to insert the XSL sytle sheet tag using Java code? Any suggestions? thanks

Answer 1

I am not quite sure that this would work, but in theory (I have never tested it, and I am not a java-guru) it just might work. I havent worked a lot with piped streams either, so there might be a flaw there that I dont know about.
import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
// Making the pipes
PipedInputStream inpipe = new PipedInputStream();
PipedOutputStream outpipe = new PipedOutputStream( inpipe );
// Redirecting XML encoding to pipe
new XMLEncoder( outpipe );
// Making a transformer with xsl schema
TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
StreamSource xslsource = new StreamSource( "xslsource.xsl")
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer( xslsource );
// Transforming from pipe to file
StreamSource xmlsource = new StreamSource( inpipe );
File xmlfile = new File( "xmlfile.xml" )
StreamResult xmlresult = new StreamResult( xmlfile );
transformer.transform( xmlsource, xmlresult );
...Think about it or try it out...
Good luck!
/Richard