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Apologies in advance for the cross-posting, but this is one of those
nasty problems that crosses the usual boundaries.
1. Consider an XSLT transform that generates a document fragment
rather than a complete document; that is, there is no single root
element.
2. Suppose TrAX is used to apply this transform and generate a result.
3. Suppose the result is a JAXP SAXResult object; that is, it fires
the contents of the result into a user-specified ContentHandler.
Question: should the the transformer fire startDocument() and
endDocument() events? even though this isn't a complete document,
only a document fragment?
The SAX API doc is not absolutely clear on this point. However, my
interpretation is that yes, it should call startDocument() and
endDocument().
The JAXP spec does not appear to have anything relevant to say about this.
In the course of adding XSLT support to JDOM, Laurent Bihanic has
discovered that different engines behave differently. In particular,
the Oracle XML Parser for Java does not call startDocument and
endDocument. This is a roadblock in adding full XSLT support to JDOM,
so some clarification would be appreciated.
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