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So now let's look at some code, which transforms XML and notifies us of the new (transformed) document via SAX.

And here's our code:

This code performs the following steps:

Now let's take a look at a creating a translet and an application which uses it.

• Examine a document instance of a trouble ticket document class
  
  
• Present an XSL stylesheet that transforms <TroubleTicket/> documents into WML
  
  
• Compile a translet from the XSL stylesheet
  
  
• Write the client application that uses the translet and a trouble ticket document instance to produce an instance of a WML document

So let's begin by taking a look at TroubleTicket.xml, a TroubleTicket document instance:

This is pretty straightforward so we won't go into it much. This, and documents of this class, will be the source XML to our translet. For brevity's sake, the DTD for this document class has been omitted.

Sample TroubleTicket.xsl

Now let's take a look at the guts of the application: the XSL stylesheet that converts TroubleTicket document instances into WML. We'll call this TroubleTicket.xsl:

An XSLT processor, using the stylesheet above, will produce the following WML from the TroubleTicket document instance in The TroubleTicket Document:

Compiling a Translet

Now let's compile the XSL stylesheet from the previous section into a translet (Java class file). The compiler is class org.apache.xalan.xsltc.compiler.XSLTC, and you will need to set your classpath to include the following JAR files:

Make sure that TroubleTicket.xsl is in the current directory, or provide its full path on the command-line.