Question

Problem:

I’m trying to load a stylesheet in Java but I get an error stateing it isn’t a stylesheet.

The Error:

ERROR: ‘The input document is not a stylesheet (the XSL namespace is not declared in the root element).’
FATAL ERROR: ‘Could not compile stylesheet’
Exception in thread “main” javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: Could not compile stylesheet
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:825)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTransformer(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:614)

My Code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         String XSLT2 =
            "<xsl:stylesheet \n" +
            "  xmlns:xsl=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform\" \n" +
            "  version=\"1.0\"\n" +
            "  >\n" +
            "\n" +
            "</xsl:stylesheet>";

        String XML = "<foo></foo>";

        StreamSource xsltSource = new StreamSource(new StringReader(XSLT2));
        Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(xsltSource);
    }

Answer 1

It appears that having the Piccolo xml parser in my classpath is causing the problem: http://piccolo.sourceforge.net/.

Not sure exactly what is going on here.

-Dave