javax.xml.transform.stream
Author: Jeff.Suttor@Sun.com

This package implements stream- and URI- specific transformation APIs.

The {@link javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource} class provides methods for specifying {@link java.io.InputStream} input, {@link java.io.Reader} input, and URL input in the form of strings. Even if an input stream or reader is specified as the source, {@link javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource#setSystemId} should still be called, so that the transformer can know from where it should resolve relative URIs. The public identifier is always optional: if the application writer includes one, it will be provided as part of the {@link javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator} information.

The {@link javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult} class provides methods for specifying {@link java.io.OutputStream}, {@link java.io.Writer}, or an output system ID, as the output of the transformation result.

Normally streams should be used rather than readers or writers, for both the Source and Result, since readers and writers already have the encoding established to and from the internal Unicode format. However, there are times when it is useful to write to a character stream, such as when using a StringWriter in order to write to a String, or in the case of reading source XML from a StringReader.