Problem with TransformerHand ler and Lexical events

[Collin VanDyck]

Hello!

I have set up a pluggable SAX transformation pipeline which is made up
of individual nodes that transform the source XML, and for the most part
it works well. Each node in the pipeline is assigned a ContentHandler
and a LexicalHandler by the transformation framework.

Each node in the pipeline may either be:

* a class that implements ContentHandler and LexicalHandler
* a wrapper class that creates a TransformerHand ler from an XSL
stylesheet and handles the SAX events.

The first case works perfectly. Both normal and lexical SAX events are
processed and then reported to the following nodes in the pipeline.

I'm having trouble with the second case; specifically lexical events
such as comments are not being passed to the next node.

Each node defines a setOutputHandle rs() (below) that sets the handlers
for events generated by that node. For the xslt wrapper, I simply
create a SAXResult using both the ContentHandler and the LexicalHandler
and then proceed to create the TransformerHand ler member that will
receive SAX events from the previous node.

Is there something I am doing wrong here that would prevent my xsl
stylesheet from passing the lexical events to the next node? I have
already verified that the transformation correctly passes through
comments in XMLSpy and that my framework is correctly invoking
transformerHand ler.comment() when a comment event fires on a previous node.

Thanks for any help, thoughts, or suggestions.

Collin

p.s. I forgot to crosspost this from comp.lang.java. programmer -- Sorry
for the duplicates :(

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public void setOutputHandle rs(ContentHandl er content, LexicalHandler
lexical) throws SAXException
{
super.setOutput Handlers(conten t, lexical);
this.result = new SAXResult();
this.result.set Handler(content );
this.result.set LexicalHandler( lexical);

try
{
final String xslt = fetchXSLTAsStri ng();
final SAXSource xsltSource = new SAXSource(new
InputSource(new BufferedReader( new StringReader(xs lt))));
final SAXTransformerF actory factory =
(SAXTransformer Factory) TransformerFact ory.newInstance ();
this.transforme rHandler =
factory.newTran sformerHandler( xsltSource);
this.transforme rHandler.setRes ult(this.result );
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new SAXException(e) ;
}
}