Re: Query regarding XSLT "Root element not set"

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:38:50 -0400
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<4a67cd33$0$48232$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
Amit Jain wrote:

I am getting below exception will running program:
************* exception start **********
false
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Root
element not set
    at org.jdom.Document.getContent(Document.java:408)
    at SimpleXalan1.main(SimpleXalan1.java:70)
************* exception ends **********

**************** Java Program Start *************
public class SimpleXalan1{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   throws MalformedURLException, SAXException, Exception{

      SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();

      Document xsltdoc = builder.build("C://Workspace//xsltdemo//
classes//message.xsl");
      Document inputDoc = builder.build("C://Workspace//xsltdemo//
classes//message.xml");
     JDOMResult jdomResult = new JDOMResult();
     Transformer obj = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer
(new JDOMSource(xsltdoc));
      obj.transform(new JDOMSource(inputDoc), jdomResult);
      Document resultDoc = jdomResult.getDocument();

     System.out.println(resultDoc.hasRootElement());
     System.out.println(resultDoc.getContent());
   }
}

*************** Java Program Ends *************


Modified version:

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;

import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
import org.jdom.output.Format;
import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;
import org.jdom.transform.JDOMResult;
import org.jdom.transform.JDOMSource;

public class SimpleXalan {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
         Document xsltdoc = builder.build("C:/message.xsl");
         Document inputDoc = builder.build("C:/message.xml");
         JDOMResult jdomResult = new JDOMResult();
         Transformer obj =
TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(new JDOMSource(xsltdoc));
         obj.transform(new JDOMSource(inputDoc), jdomResult);
         Document resultDoc = jdomResult.getDocument();
         XMLOutputter fmt = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
         System.out.println(fmt.outputString(resultDoc));
     }
}

I changed the // in filenames to / and used some nicer
output.

*************** message.xml Start *************
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<message>Yep, it worked!</message>
*************** message.xml Ends *************

*************** message.xsl Start *************
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
    version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>
   <!-- simply copy the message to the result tree -->
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:value-of select="message"/>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
*************** message.xsl Ends *************


As the error message suggests you are missing the root element, so
I added one with the traditional name of foobar:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
   <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8"/>
   <xsl:template match="/">
     <foobar>
     <xsl:value-of select="message"/>
     </foobar>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Arne

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