Java by API/javax.xml.transform.stream/StreamSource

new StreamSource(File f)

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/*

* Copyright (c) 2004 David Flanagan.  All rights reserved.
* This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3nd Edition.
* It is provided AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied.
* You may study, use, and modify it for any non-commercial purpose,
* including teaching and use in open-source projects.
* You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice.
* For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book, 
* please visit http://www.davidflanagan.ru/javaexamples3.
*/

import java.io.File; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource; /**

* Transforms an input document to an output document using an XSLT stylesheet.
* Usage: java XSLTransform input stylesheet output
*/

public class XSLTransform {

 public static void main(String[] args) throws TransformerException {
   // Set up streams for input, stylesheet, and output.
   // These do not have to come from or go to files. We can also use the
   // javax.xml.transform.{dom,sax} packages use DOM trees and streams of
   // SAX events as sources and sinks for documents and stylesheets.
   StreamSource input = new StreamSource(new File(args[0]));
   StreamSource stylesheet = new StreamSource(new File(args[1]));
   StreamResult output = new StreamResult(new File(args[2]));
   // Get a factory object, create a Transformer from it, and
   // transform the input document to the output document.
   TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
   Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(stylesheet);
   transformer.transform(input, output);
 }

}

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