org.apache.xalan.lib
Class Redirect

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.xalan.lib.Redirect

public class Redirect

extends 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/XSL/Transform/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>
 

Author:

Scott Boag

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.
protected Hashtable	m_formatterListeners List of formatter listeners indexed by filename.
protected Hashtable	m_outputStreams List of output streams indexed by filename.

Constructor Summary

Redirect()

Method Summary

void	close(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem) Close the given file and remove it from the formatter listener's table.
private String	getFilename(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem) Get the filename from the 'select' or the 'file' attribute.
private org.xml.sax.ContentHandler	makeFormatterListener(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem, String fileName, boolean shouldPutInTable, boolean mkdirs, boolean append) Create a new ContentHandler, based on attributes of the current ContentHandler.
void	open(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem) Open the given file and put it in the XML, HTML, or Text formatter listener's table.
private String	urlToFileName(String base)
void	write(XSLProcessorContext context, ElemExtensionCall elem) Write the evalutation of the element children to the given file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

m_formatterListeners

protected Hashtable m_formatterListeners

List of formatter listeners indexed by filename.

m_outputStreams

protected Hashtable m_outputStreams

List of output streams indexed by filename.

DEFAULT_APPEND_OPEN

public static final boolean DEFAULT_APPEND_OPEN

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

See Also:

Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_APPEND_WRITE

public static final boolean DEFAULT_APPEND_WRITE

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

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

Redirect

public Redirect()

Method Detail

open

public void open(XSLProcessorContext context,
                 ElemExtensionCall elem)
          throws MalformedURLException,
                 FileNotFoundException,
                 IOException,
                 javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

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

Throws:

MalformedURLException

FileNotFoundException

IOException

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

write

public void write(XSLProcessorContext context,
                  ElemExtensionCall elem)
           throws MalformedURLException,
                  FileNotFoundException,
                  IOException,
                  javax.xml.transform.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.

Throws:

MalformedURLException

FileNotFoundException

IOException

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

close

public void close(XSLProcessorContext context,
                  ElemExtensionCall elem)
           throws MalformedURLException,
                  FileNotFoundException,
                  IOException,
                  javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

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

Throws:

MalformedURLException

FileNotFoundException

IOException

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

getFilename

private String getFilename(XSLProcessorContext context,
                           ElemExtensionCall elem)
                    throws MalformedURLException,
                           FileNotFoundException,
                           IOException,
                           javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

Get the filename from the 'select' or the 'file' attribute.

Throws:

MalformedURLException

FileNotFoundException

IOException

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

urlToFileName

private String urlToFileName(String base)

makeFormatterListener

private org.xml.sax.ContentHandler makeFormatterListener(XSLProcessorContext context,
                                                         ElemExtensionCall elem,
                                                         String fileName,
                                                         boolean shouldPutInTable,
                                                         boolean mkdirs,
                                                         boolean append)
                                                  throws MalformedURLException,
                                                         FileNotFoundException,
                                                         IOException,
                                                         javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

Create a new ContentHandler, based on attributes of the current ContentHandler.

Throws:

MalformedURLException

FileNotFoundException

IOException

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException