Correct use of the ErrorListener in Xalan Transformations

[Roger (archive)]

I am transforming an XML stream from a third party application using Xalan in a servlet. Every once in a while the application sends a malformed XML document and I'm trying to find out which document it is. I have created an ErrorListener class and registered it with the Transformer object. The ErrorListener class is being called but when I try to get the SourceLocator object back from the TransformerException object I'm getting null returned. I've googled and can't find any code examples that do anything than call getLocator but I'm wondering if I need to do configure anything else in the Transformer to cause it to return a sourceLocator with the Exception or if I need to create my own SourceLocator and pass it to the Transformer somehow? I would be grateful for any guidance.

Regards
Roger

 

[GIMME]

Why don't you read the stream and convert that into a string,

then convert the string into a stream and then do the transform,

then if it fails print the string.

Another option is to use JDOM to do the transformation ... JDOM uses xalan for it's transformations so why reinvent the wheel?

My 2 cents ...