org.apache.xalan.lib
Class Redirect

java.lang.Object
  |
  +--org.apache.xalan.lib.Redirect

public class Redirect

extends java.lang.Object

Implements three extension elements to allow an XSLT transformation to redirect its output to multiple output files. It is accessed by specifying a namespace URI as follows:

    xmlns:redirect="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/redirect"
 

You can either just use redirect:write, in which case the file will be opened and immediately closed after the write, or you can bracket the write calls by redirect:open and redirect:close, in which case the file will be kept open for multiple writes until the close call is encountered. Calls can be nested.

Calls can take a 'file' attribute and/or a 'select' attribute in order to get the filename. If a select attribute is encountered, it will evaluate that expression for a string that indicates the filename. If the string evaluates to empty, it will attempt to use the 'file' attribute as a default. Filenames can be relative or absolute. If they are relative, the base directory will be the same as the base directory for the output document. This is obtained by calling getOutputTarget() on the TransformerImpl. You can set this base directory by calling TransformerImpl.setOutputTarget() or it is automatically set when using the two argument form of transform() or transformNode().

Calls to redirect:write and redirect:open also take an optional attribute append="true|yes", which will attempt to simply append to an existing file instead of always opening a new file. The default behavior of always overwriting the file still happens if you do not specify append.

Note: this may give unexpected results when using xml or html output methods, since this is not coordinated with the serializers - hence, you may get extra xml decls in the middle of your file after appending to it.

Example:

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
                 version="1.0"
                 xmlns:redirect="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/redirect"
                 extension-element-prefixes="redirect">

   <xsl:template match="/">
     <out>
       default output.
     </out>
     <redirect:open file="doc3.out"/>
     <redirect:write file="doc3.out">
       <out>
         <redirect:write file="doc1.out">
           <out>
             doc1 output.
             <redirect:write file="doc3.out">
               Some text to doc3
             </redirect:write>
           </out>
         </redirect:write>
         <redirect:write file="doc2.out">
           <out>
             doc2 output.
             <redirect:write file="doc3.out">
               Some more text to doc3
               <redirect:write select="doc/foo">
                 text for doc4
               </redirect:write>
             </redirect:write>
           </out>
         </redirect:write>
       </out>
     </redirect:write>
     <redirect:close file="doc3.out"/>
   </xsl:template>

 </xsl:stylesheet>
 

See Also:

Example with Redirect extension

Field Summary

static boolean	DEFAULT_APPEND_OPEN Default append mode for bare open calls.
static boolean	DEFAULT_APPEND_WRITE Default append mode for bare write calls.

Constructor Summary

Redirect()

Method Summary

void	close(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem) Close the given file and remove it from the formatter listener's table.
SerializationHandler	createSerializationHandler(TransformerImpl transformer, java.io.FileOutputStream ostream, java.io.File file, OutputProperties format) A class that extends this one could over-ride this public method and receive a callback for the creation of the serializer used in the redirection.
void	endRedirection(TransformerImpl transf) A class that extends this class can over-ride this public method and receive a callback that redirection to the ContentHandler specified in the startRedirection() call has ended
void	open(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem) Open the given file and put it in the XML, HTML, or Text formatter listener's table.
void	startRedirection(TransformerImpl transf, ContentHandler formatter) A class that extends this class can over-ride this public method and recieve a callback that redirection is about to start
void	write(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem) Write the evalutation of the element children to the given file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

DEFAULT_APPEND_OPEN

public static final boolean DEFAULT_APPEND_OPEN

Default append mode for bare open calls. False for backwards compatibility (I think).

DEFAULT_APPEND_WRITE

public static final boolean DEFAULT_APPEND_WRITE

Default append mode for bare write calls. False for backwards compatibility.

Constructor Detail

Redirect

public Redirect()

Method Detail

open

public void open(XSLProcessorContext context,
                 ElemExtensionCall elem)
          throws java.net.MalformedURLException,
                 java.io.FileNotFoundException,
                 java.io.IOException,
                 TransformerException

Open the given file and put it in the XML, HTML, or Text formatter listener's table.

write

public void write(XSLProcessorContext context,
                  ElemExtensionCall elem)
           throws java.net.MalformedURLException,
                  java.io.FileNotFoundException,
                  java.io.IOException,
                  TransformerException

Write the evalutation of the element children to the given file. Then close the file unless it was opened with the open extension element and is in the formatter listener's table.

close

public void close(XSLProcessorContext context,
                  ElemExtensionCall elem)
           throws java.net.MalformedURLException,
                  java.io.FileNotFoundException,
                  java.io.IOException,
                  TransformerException

Close the given file and remove it from the formatter listener's table.

startRedirection

public void startRedirection(TransformerImpl transf,
                             ContentHandler formatter)

A class that extends this class can over-ride this public method and recieve a callback that redirection is about to start

Parameters:

transf - The transformer.

formatter - The handler that receives the redirected output

endRedirection

public void endRedirection(TransformerImpl transf)

A class that extends this class can over-ride this public method and receive a callback that redirection to the ContentHandler specified in the startRedirection() call has ended

Parameters:

transf - The transformer.

createSerializationHandler

public SerializationHandler createSerializationHandler(TransformerImpl transformer,
                                                       java.io.FileOutputStream ostream,
                                                       java.io.File file,
                                                       OutputProperties format)
                                                throws java.io.IOException,
                                                       TransformerException

A class that extends this one could over-ride this public method and receive a callback for the creation of the serializer used in the redirection.

Parameters:

transformer - The transformer

ostream - The output stream that the serializer wraps

file - The file associated with the ostream

format - The format parameter used to create the serializer

Returns:

the serializer that the redirection will go to.

Throws:

java.io.IOException -

TransformerException -