Re: [xml-dev] Best way to create an XML document

[Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@ca.ibm.com>]

You haven't specified a target for the transformer to write to. Try setting
one with TransformerHandler.setResult().

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org

"Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com> wrote on 04/12/2008 10:02:46 AM:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.
> com> wrote:
> >  Create an empty SAXTransformerFactory get the TransformerHandler and
> >  then just call the event methods on that... (using Xalan or Saxon
> >  rather than Xerces)
>
> I was trying this approach with Xalan-J 2.7.1, and was facing some
> problem. Below is my attempt to create an XML document from scratch
> using this approach.
>
> import org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl;
> import javax.xml.transform.sax.TransformerHandler;
>
> public class MyXMLWriter {
>
>   public static void main(String[] args) {
>       try {
>         TransformerFactoryImpl tfi = new TransformerFactoryImpl();
>         TransformerHandler tHandler = tfi.newTransformerHandler();
>         tHandler.startDocument();
>         tHandler.endDocument();
>       }
>       catch(Exception ex) {
>    ex.printStackTrace();
>       }
>   }
>
> }
>
> When I run this program, I get the following error:
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.
> createResultCon
> entHandler(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:302)
>         at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.
> startDocument(T
> ansformerIdentityImpl.java:911)
>         at MyXMLWriter.main(MyXMLWriter.java:10)
>
> Could you please help me how I can resolve this error.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
>
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