Hi, I have problem with XSLT transformation, SAX content-lexical handler and CDATA section. I based my application architecture on SAX transformation and pipeline mechanims and now I have passed the deadline of my project and I have many others staff to implement for my application. I already posted this message to xalan-dev mailing list, but may be a Xalan user can help me.
Here is the trouble I have: My XmlProducer sends SAX events to SAX Transformer handler as follow: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?> <custom:metadata xmlns:custom="http://www.imtf.com/edoc/metadata/custom/";> <custom:section1><![CDATA[<<<Yvan Hess>>>]]></custom:section1> <section2>SECTION 2 WITHOUT CDATA</section2> </custom:metadata> I created a transformer handler using the follwing stylesheet: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:custom="http://www.imtf.com/edoc/metadata/custom/";> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" indent="yes" cdata-section-elements="custom:section1 section2"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> and intialized as follow: ...... transformerHandler = saxTFactory.newTransformerHandler(template); SAXResult result = new SAXResult(); result.setHandler(xmlConsumer); /*Dummy handler showing SAX events*/ result.setLexicalHandler(xmlConsumer); /*Dummy handler showing SAX events*/ transformerHandler.setResult(result); //transformerHandler.setResult(new StreamResult(System.out)); ---> see trouble (2) HERE ARE THE TROUBLES I HAVE: Beetween my XML producer and the XST transformer handler, I put a dummy handler verifying events and I get the following (only interesting event are showed): DUMMY[BEFORE XSLT]: Call startDocument DUMMY[BEFORE XSLT]: Call startCDATA DUMMY[BEFORE XSLT]: Call characters DUMMY[BEFORE XSLT]: Call endCDATA DUMMY[BEFORE XSLT]: Call characters DUMMY[BEFORE XSLT]: Call endDocument The result of the conversion is send to a dummy handler verifying SAX events and and I get the following (only interesting event are showed): DUMMY[AFTER XSLT]: Call startDocument DUMMY[AFTER XSLT]: Call characters DUMMY[AFTER XSLT]: Call characters DUMMY[AFTER XSLT]: Call characters DUMMY[AFTER XSLT]: Call endDocument 1) The lexical handler is not called as for example startCDATA-endCDATA, only content handler events. I don't understand why because I have CDATA section and the others chained handler doesn't work correctly (as for example a serializer) because they expected to have CDATA section. 2) If instead of transmitting the result to a SAX handler, I send it to a StreamResult (see commented code above) and I get the following <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <custom:metadata xmlns:custom="http://www.imtf.com/edoc/metadata/custom/";> <custom:section1><<<Yvan Hess></custom:section1> <section2><![CDATA[SECTION 2 WITHOUT C]]><![CDATA[DATA]]></section2> </custom:metadata> As you can see section2 have be wrapped with a CDATA section, sorry with 2 section CDATA; I would like to have only one section data! But as you can see also section1 has not been wrapper with a CDATA section. It seems that namespace are treated correctly. I did a standalone test and I get the same problem with section having a namespace! For your information, I am using JVM 1.3.1, Xalan-j_2_5_D1 and xerces-2_4_0. Please help me, I am in a very critical situation due to this problem. Regards. Yvan Hess
