Transforming XML through XSLT

Question

Hi Folks,
I just need to transform a basic xml using xslt. I have built and xsl file which works fine on the given xml input. I have test through AltovaXMLSpy tool.
Now I want to do the same through my java class with xml as input string and xsl file.
I have seen this example:
package com.ibn.util;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.apache.xalan.*;
* A simple demo of Xalan 1. This code was originally written using
* Xalan 1.2.2.  It will not work with Xalan 2.
public class SimpleXalan1 {
     * Accept two command line arguments: the name of an XML file, and
     * the name of an XSLT stylesheet. The result of the transformation
     * is written to stdout.
    public static void main(String[] args)
            throws MalformedURLException, SAXException {
        if (args.length != 2) {
            System.err.println("Usage:");
            System.err.println("  java " + SimpleXalan1.class.getName(  )
                    + " xmlFileName xsltFileName");
            System.exit(1);
        String xmlFileName = args[0];
        String xsltFileName = args[1];
        String xmlSystemId = new File(xmlFileName).toURL().toExternalForm(  );
        String xsltSystemId = new File(xsltFileName).toURL().toExternalForm(  );
        org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTProcessor processor = org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTProcessorFactory.getProcessor();
        org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTInputSource xmlInputSource =
                new org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTInputSource(xmlSystemId);
        org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTInputSource xsltInputSource =
                new org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTInputSource(xsltSystemId);
        org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTResultTarget resultTree =
                new org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTResultTarget(System.out);
        processor.process(xmlInputSource, xsltInputSource, resultTree);
}but on compilation it gives errors as org.apache.xalan.xslt is not in the class path. Could anybody suggest which jars i need to resolve this problem and where I can get that? or is there any other better solution provided by the core java api?
Thanks.

Answer 1

thanks dude.
Did it the following was as i wanted to read the transformation output as well.
public String doTransform(String xmlString){
    ByteArrayOutputStream result = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    //Result output = new StreamResult(result);
    try{
      DocumentBuilder parser = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
      Document document = parser.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xmlString)));
      Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(new StreamSource(new FileInputStream("/IBNSubscriberServlet/src/com/ibn/util/g7.xsl")));
      Source source = new DOMSource(document);
      //output = new StreamResult(System.out);
      transformer.transform(source, new StreamResult(result));
      return result.toString();
    }catch (Exception e){
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    return result.toString();
  }Edited by: buttsp on Sep 16, 2009 4:18 AM
Edited by: buttsp on Sep 16, 2009 4:18 AM