Re: XML/XSL...

[Scott_Boag at lotus dot com]

Sounds like you don't have the Xerces.jar on your classpath, or you're
configured with the wrong version of Xercis.

-scott




                                                                                                                           
                    "Jagadha Sivan"                                                                                        
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Hi!
Ken, thanks so much that that information. It did help...
I downloaded Xalan. When I compile/run any of the sample programs, I get an
error at the XSLTProcessorFactory.getProcessor function call...

At compile time I get the error:
Can't find class org.mxl.sax.Lexicalhandler...

when I run the class that's part of the download package, I get this:
java.lang.ClassFormatError: Bad interface index
        at org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTProcessorFactory.getProcessor(Compiled
Code)
        at TransformToDom.main(TransformToDom.java:88)


If anyone has worked on Xalan & has encountered similar errors, any help
would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jagadha.



----- Original Message -----
From: G. Ken Holman <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
To: XSL List <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: XML/XSL...


> At 00/04/19 15:56 -0400, Jagadha Sivan wrote:
> >Hi!!
>
> Welcome!
>
> >I think I have a fairly simple question, I guess..
> >I have a client-server setup. The client gets an XML document in
format1.
> >The server understands only format2. So, I need to convert format1 to
> >format2
> >I understand that this can be done using XSL.
>
> XSLT, actually: XSL Transformations ... currently XSLT 1.0 1999-11-19
>
> >But I am unaware of any
> >software that would take an XML & an XSL document & perform the
conversion.
>
> There are a number of tools listed at http://www.xmlsoftware.com/xslt/
...
> a number of which are documented for use as servlets.
>
> Your situation, though, appears to be slightly reversed in that you have
a
> server application *receiving* an XML file from a client, not
*delivering*
> to the client the result of transforming XML on the server.  I gather,
> then, your server application understands only one XML vocabulary and in
> order for it to read your client's arbitrary vocabulary you need to
> translate it.
>
> Some XSLT processor writers have released their source code.  You can
> front-end an application with an XSLT processor and have the application
> deal with the results of transformation without incurring the overhead of
> serializing the result tree into hard syntax and re-parsing that hard
> syntax into either a DOM tree or SAX events.  Check the tools for how you
> can deliver the result tree as either a DOM tree or a set of SAX events
to
> some post-process (which in your case is the application).
>
> You will need to write a stylesheet for each XML vocabulary on your
client
> you want to translate to the XML vocabulary on your server.
>
> Without prejudice to other processors, you might consider looking at XT,
> Saxon, Xalan or LotusXSL ... I'm not familiar with all of the available
> processors to know which others might supply source code, nor even if all
> of the above give you the flexibility you seek on the processing of the
> result tree.
>
> The processor suppliers subscribe to this list ... perhaps they can post
> the flexibility they provide for applications to receive the content of
the
> result tree.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> ............... Ken
>
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