Hi Arsalan
If you have an XML representation of HTML (e.g. XHTML) you might find the
HTMLWriter useful - it expands CDATA sections to text and avoids closing
some tags which are known to cause layout problems (e.g. <p>ffff </p> or
<br></br>, <img>foo </img> and so on)
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
HTMLWriter writer = new HTMLWriter( out );
writer.write( transformedDoc );
(you could use XMLWriter rather than the HTMLWriter instead to preserve the
XML-ness of your document).
Alternatively, if you have a dom4j Document that you wish to style into some
visual representation using XSLT and immediately return the output of the
transformation to the user, you could bypass creating a dom4j Document with
the result and just use JAXP to write the textual output. e.g.
Document document = ...;
// load the transformer
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(
new StreamSource( xsl )
);
// the source is a dom4j document
Source source = new DocumentSource( document );
// the result is the Servlet response
Result result = new StreamResult( response.getWriter() );
// now lets transform
transformer.transform( source, result );
Also the reverse can be done - if there's an external XML document that you
wish to read from a stream, transform it with XSLT and then process the
result programatically with dom4j you could do this in reverse. The
following example takes the servlet input (e.g. a HTTP POST) then transforms
it and creates a dom4j Document with the result...
// the source is the servlet input (POST)
Source source = new StreamSource( request.getReader() );
// the result will be a dom4j Document
DocumentResult result = new DocumentResult();
// now lets transform
transformer.transform( source, result );
Document transformedDoc = result.getDocument();
James
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Nichols
To: Lodhi, arsalan ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] Sending the Transformed Document Back
Arsalan,
Try either
out.println (transformedDoc.asXML());
or use the XMLWriter and OutputFormat classes for better control.
Is this XHTML you are returning? If raw XML, make sure your browser can
display it ok - try writing transformedDoc to a file and open it from there.
Regards,
Thomas.
At 15:26 18/06/2001 +0000, Lodhi, arsalan wrote:
Does anyone know how can we send the document back to browser if I am using
servlet - I've done this:
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println(transformedDoc);
out.close();
but out.println(String ) takes string - how can i send the transformed (from
xml - html) document back to browser
thanks
arsalan
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