I have an xslt 2.0 file which is being used to transform a csv file to an xml file. The xsl has been taken from here:
http://p2p.wrox.com/xslt/40898-transform-csv-file-xml.html#post164344
Now I am trying to execute this through Java transformer (using the Saxon9 xsl transformer factory). Since the csv file is being passed into the xsl as a parameter, there is no need for me to pass anything in the Source parameter in the transform method. Since the javadocs for the transform method state the following:
The javadocs for the Transformer.transform method clearly state that the following:
"An empty Source is represented as an empty document as constructed by DocumentBuilder.newDocument(). The result of transforming an empty Source depends on the transformation behavior; it is not always an empty Result."
I tried to create an empty document and try the transformation as seen below:
TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance("net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl",null);
Source xsltSource = new StreamSource("file:///C:/my.xsl");
Transformer xsltTransformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer(xsltSource);
xsltTransformer.setParameter("pathToCSV", "'file:///C:/input.csv'");
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
xsltTransformer.transform(new DOMSource(DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().newDocument()), new StreamResult(writer));
The above piece of code does not output anything and does not work as expected since I think the empty document given as input is taken into consideration rather than the csv file passed in the following line in the xsl:
<xsl:param name="pathToCSV" />
<xsl:variable name="input" select="unparsed-text($pathToCSV)"/>
Could anyone give me pointers on how to accomplish what I am trying to achieve?