display a tag information from xslt file.

[Chaitanya Kandikonda]

Hello,
I have a doubt in displaying one tag information from XSLT using java program.

example:

student.xslt

Student id: John
Student Name: Visa
Department: 111-222-333
Year: 05/2008

suppose i want to display only student name. into command prompt. How do i write a program using xslt.
Please guide me in this regards,

Chaitanya

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Hi,

Welcome to JavaRanch!

The data you've shown here isn't XSLT or XML, so I'm a little confused as to what your question is. Running a valid XSLT transform on an XML file from Java can be as simple as this:

File xslFile, xmlFile, outputFile = ...
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer t = factory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xslFile));
t.transform(new StreamSource(xmlFile), new StreamResult(outputFile));

If you had XML that looked like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Student>
  <id>John</id>
  <name>Visa</name>
  <department>111-222-333</department>
  <year>05/2008</year>
</Student>

Then XSL to extract just the name might look like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="text" indent="no"/>
  <xsl:template match="Student">
    <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope something in here helps.
[ May 23, 2008: Message edited by: Ernest Friedman-Hill ]