Question

I am currently using the standard javax.xml.transform library to transform my XML to CSV using XSL. My XSL file is large – at around 950 lines. My XML files can be quite large also.

It was working fine in the prototype stage with a fraction of the XSL in place at around 50 lines or so. Now in the ‘final system’ when it performs the transform it comes up with the error Branch target offset too large for short.

private String transformXML() {
    String formattedOutput = "";
    try {

        TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();            
        Transformer transformer =
                tFactory.newTransformer( new StreamSource( xslFilename ) );

        StreamSource xmlSource = new StreamSource(new ByteArrayInputStream( xmlString.getBytes() ) );
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        transformer.transform( xmlSource, new StreamResult( baos ) );

        formattedOutput = baos.toString();

    } catch( Exception e ) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return formattedOutput;
}

I came across a few postings on this error but not too sure what to do.
Am I doing anything wrong code wise?
Are there any alternative 3rd Party transformers available that could do this?

Thanks,

Andez

Answer 1

I came across a post on the net that mentioned apache XALAN. So I added the jars to my project. Everything has started working since even though I do not directly reference any XALAN classes in my code. As far as I can tell it still should use the jaxax.xml classes.

Not too sure what is happening there. But it is working.