001 /* SAXTransformerFactory.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 package javax.xml.transform.sax; 039 040 import javax.xml.transform.Source; 041 import javax.xml.transform.Templates; 042 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException; 043 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; 044 import org.xml.sax.XMLFilter; 045 046 /** 047 * Specialized transformer factory with support for SAX-specific factory 048 * methods. 049 * This factory provides SAX content handlers that can create transformation 050 * templates and transformers. 051 * 052 * @author (a href='mailto:dog@gnu.org'>Chris Burdess</a) 053 */ 054 public abstract class SAXTransformerFactory extends TransformerFactory 055 { 056 057 /** 058 * Factory feature indicating that the factory can be cast to this class. 059 */ 060 public static final String FEATURE = 061 "http://javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXTransformerFactory/feature"; 062 063 /** 064 * Factory feature indicating that this factory can create new XMLFilters. 065 */ 066 public static final String FEATURE_XMLFILTER = 067 "http://javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXTransformerFactory/feature/xmlfilter"; 068 069 protected SAXTransformerFactory() 070 { 071 } 072 073 /** 074 * Returns a content handler that can process SAX events into a result, 075 * using the specified transformation. 076 * @param src the source stylesheet 077 */ 078 public abstract TransformerHandler newTransformerHandler(Source src) 079 throws TransformerConfigurationException; 080 081 /** 082 * Returns a content handler that can process SAX events into a result, 083 * using the specified transformation. 084 * @param templates the compiled stylesheet 085 */ 086 public abstract TransformerHandler newTransformerHandler(Templates templates) 087 throws TransformerConfigurationException; 088 089 /** 090 * Returns a content handler that can process SAX events into a result, 091 * using the identity transform. 092 */ 093 public abstract TransformerHandler newTransformerHandler() 094 throws TransformerConfigurationException; 095 096 /** 097 * Returns a content handler that can process SAX events into a 098 * transformation template. 099 */ 100 public abstract TemplatesHandler newTemplatesHandler() 101 throws TransformerConfigurationException; 102 103 /** 104 * Creates an XML filter for the specified source. 105 */ 106 public abstract XMLFilter newXMLFilter(Source src) 107 throws TransformerConfigurationException; 108 109 /** 110 * Creates an XML filter for the specified compiled stylesheet. 111 */ 112 public abstract XMLFilter newXMLFilter(Templates templates) 113 throws TransformerConfigurationException; 114 115 }