XML Transformer configuration help

[damir.korencic]

Hi ppl,

Does somebody know how to cofigure a
javax.xml.transform.Transformer object
so that it does not output all of the element attributes
with their default values, just the attributes that are
present in the original XML document, that is
parsed, transformed (only values of text attributes
of certain elements are changed) via DOM api and then
output via the transformer.
Or, more generally, does somebody know what
are the other implicit transformations that the
Transformer class can make when outputing
the document?

Tnx a lot,

Damir

 

[John B. Matthews]

Does somebody know how to cofigure a javax.xml.transform.Transformer
object so that it does not output all of the element attributes with
their default values, just the attributes that are present in the
original XML document, that is parsed, transformed (only values of
text attributes of certain elements are changed) via DOM api and then
output via the transformer. Or, more generally, does somebody know
what are the other implicit transformations that the Transformer
class can make when outputing the document?

I'd think that would depend on 1) the implementation dependent factory
returned by TransformerFactory.newInstance(), as described here:

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFac
tory.html#newInstance()>

and 2) the XSLT supplied to the factory's newTransformer() method. With
no XSLT, the identity Transform copies everything.