[XALANJ-2057] Transformer.setParameter should accept Source as an Object value

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.7
• Component/s: JAXP
• Assignee: Henry Zongaro
• Reporter: elharo
• Created: 11/Feb/05 11:07
• Updated: 03/Feb/08 07:27

Description

Saxon 8 has a nice feature whereby you can pass a TrAX SAXSource/DOMSource etc. to the Transformer.setParameter method, Saxon converts that source into its internal representation. That is, it will read from the source and build the necessary representation of a node-set. This makes it relatively easy to set parameters whose values are node-sets.

This is very useful for hooking up Xalan to other object models such as JDOM and XOM. Currently these models can be transformed by wrapping the original input document in a SAXSource. However, node-set parameters do not work the same way. These have to be set by wrapping them in a DOM NodeIterator or NodeList or Node. It would be more consistent and more convenient if setParameter accepted a TrAX Source object as well.