Generating XML fragment to DOM node using XSL

[Steve Dussinger]

Hi All:

I am attempting to use an XSL stylesheet to take data from an existing DOM document, and place it into a different existing DOM document.

The problem I'm having is that I get the following exception from Xalan-J (version 2.5.2), because I am not generating a single root node from my stylesheet:

"Can't have more than one root on a DOM!"

Now I understand that I can't create more than one root node on a DOM document, but since I'm generating these nodes into an already existing document, I assumed that this would not be an issue. I can generate a single rot node as part of my transform, and all works fine, but the resulting data as placed into my destination document is screwed due to the addition of a new node.

Is there some switch setting or something that I need to use to make this work? I'm fervently hoping that this is not something that "just can't be done using XSLT", and that I've just missed something in the docs...

Any help greatly appreciated...

Thanx,
Steve Dussinger

 

[GIMME]

If you're interested in a JDOM solution, let me know.

There's no point of my cooking up a solution if it is of no interest to you.

 

[Steve Dussinger]

If you're interested in a JDOM solution, let me know.

There's no point of my cooking up a solution if it is of no interest to you.

Thanx for the interest, but I *really* need to be able to do this with XSLT...

Thanx anyway.

--Steve

 

[GIMME]

I'm puzzled by what you mean when you say you need use XSLT.

Do you mean that you need a command line solution and that you can't write a JAVA program to do the work?

XSLT transforms are easy with JDOM.

With JDOM you can go back and forth between JDOM
Documents and W3C Documents with one method call.

Go to http://www.jdom.org/docs/apidocs/index.html and look at DOMBuilder and DOMOutputter. Look at JDOMResult if you want to see how to do a transform.

If you want an example where I :

1. read an xslt file,
2. read an xml
3. read an xml
4. Do a transform on one and two.
5. Combine the result with 3.
6. Return a single org.w3c.dom.Document

let me know. That's what you wanted. Right?