RE: [xsl] splitting one xml into many xml documents using xsl

["Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>]

> > What is a reasonable alternative, though, is to write a
> splitting SAX filter
> > to process the output: most Java processors will write output to a
> > user-supplied ContentHandler, and you can insert a
> processing instruction
> > into the event stream to cause this to switch output to a
> new destination.
>
> Would such a content handler be portable between various versions of
> Saxon, Xalan-1 and Xalan-2?

Yes, I would think so. In fact I think you can do this entirely within the
TrAX interface, so the whole application should be portable between Saxon
and Xalan: just wrap your SAX2 ContentHandler as a SAXResult and pass it as
the second argument of transform(source, result).

> Apart from this: How do i create directories in a java
> program without the
> additional pain of searching for apropriate libraries or
> resorting to JNI?

It's not difficult in JDK 1.2, though it's trickier with earlier versions.
You'll find code in the Saxon module com.icl.saxon.style.XSLDocument that
does it.

Mike Kay
Software AG


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