I can see implementing the output properties without requiring
XSLT, however.
If the intent was to be XSLT-specific, the package names should
have been "javax.xml.xslt.*" ... :)
- Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan D. Lenz" <>
To: "David Brownell" <>; "Evan D. Lenz" <>; "Elliotte Rusty
Harold" <>; <>; <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] JAXP's ID Transform failing to includenamespacedeclaration attributes
> David Brownell wrote:
> > The javadoc doesn't constrain Transformer objects to support only
> > XSLT ... it appears to take some care to avoid linking to XSLT.
>
> To what extent that care is intentional, I think it's misplaced. There's no
> getting away from the XSLT-specific nature of getOutputProperties() and
> other methods and attributes of the Transformer class and fellow classes and
> interfaces in the java.xml.transform package. Indeed, the specification
> makes normative reference to the XSLT recommendation in the description of
> individual methods and properties, if not in the general description of
> Transformer.
>
> Evan
>
