Setting Namespace for Xalan

Question

I'm using JAXP 1.2
I have a custom sax parser (implements XMLReader) that reads csv files then sends SAX events to a stylesheet for translation. My problem is that Xalan requires a namespace-aware SAX parser. The SAXParserFactory has a method (setNamespaceAware()) which allows you to change this to "true", since the default is "false". Since I'm not using the SAXParserFactory to create my reader, I'm not sure how to set this using my custom parser. I have implemented the setFeature and getFeature by storing the values in a HashMap. See code below. I then execute the setFeature for my parser before I use the translator to set namespace to true.
csvReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes",true);
csvReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace",true);
I'm not sure how to get Xalan to recognize these Features without creating a parser from the Factory. Any ideas?
/***************** CODE SAMPLE *****************/
private Map featureMap = new HashMap();
public boolean getFeature(String name)
throws SAXNotRecognizedException, SAXNotSupportedException {
Boolean featureValue = (Boolean) this.featureMap.get(name);
return (featureValue == null) ? false
: featureValue.booleanValue();
public void setFeature(String name, boolean value)
throws SAXNotRecognizedException, SAXNotSupportedException {
this.featureMap.put(name, new Boolean(value));
}

Answer 1

Here's some code I have in production:SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
XMLReader reader = spf.newSAXParser().getXMLReader();
reader.setContentHandler(handler);
reader.setProperty("http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler", handler);
reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", true);
reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", false);And here's the method that produces the "handler" object:private synchronized TransformerHandler getHandler(String xslFile) throws TransformerConfigurationException {
  SAXTransformerFactory factory = (SAXTransformerFactory)TransformerFactory.newInstance();
  Templates t = (Templates)templates.get(xslFile);
  if (t == null) {
    t = factory.newTemplates(new StreamSource(new File(getServletContext().getRealPath(xslFile))));
    templates.put(xslFile, t);
  return factory.newTransformerHandler(t);
}This works for me. The difference is that I am using Saxon instead of Xalan to do the transformation, and possibly that is a significant difference.