How to create a xml object dynamically

Question

Hi all,
In my current project the database is returning the query result in xml string format(using oracle's DBMS-XML package).
Now I need to use this xml string and build a xml object and transform it into XSLT and then in a servlet and then pass it to the browser and display it using xsl stylesheets.
Can some one help me in building an xml object using a string( the xml string is in the xml format i.e in <..> format) and then transform it into xslt in the servlet and send across to the browser.
Any hands on code or references to the code will be most favourable.
any help regarding this issue will be most appreciated. Pls do reply as early as possible as I do not have much time to implement this.
Thanking in advance for your kind help.
Srinivas.

Answer 1

What's an "xml object"?
If you want to transform it using XSLT (transforming it "into" XSLT doesn't make much sense), you can transform direct from the string. Like this:try {
  TransformerFactory xformFactory  = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
  Source xsl = new StreamSource("your.xsl");
  Transformer stylesheet = xformFactory.newTransformer(xsl);
  Source request  = new StreamSource(new StringReader(yourXMLString));
  Result response = new StreamResult(out);
  stylesheet.transform(request, response);
catch (TransformerException e) {
  System.err.println(e);
}By the way, if you haven't seen this code before then I suggest you go and read ERH's book about XML with Java:
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/index.html