Syntax highlighted XML schema for JSF 2.0 Application Configuration Resource File ( faces-config.xml ). Almost 3000 lines! <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsd:sch...

This one is even more weird: it worked on Windows but failed on Linux, using default tools JDK1.6.0_20 on both. The exception thrown was: java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid conversion fro... And the stack trace: java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid conversion fro... This was the XSL used: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... The problem was , DateUtil.java had two getDate methods, one taking long parameter, the other taking a String parameter. And Java's XSLT get confused about which one to use: import java.util.Date; import java.text.SimpleD...

Following are some bugs in the Xalan jar shipped with JBoss 5.1.0 GA and JBoss 6.0. The Xalan jar file is located in jboss-5.1.0.GA/lib/endorsed ( %JBOSS_HOME%/common/lib for JBoss 6.0). Test xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> ... Test xsl: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... XSLT Java code: import org.w3c.dom.*; import javax.xml.parsers.... DateUtil.java import java.util.Date; public class DateUti... XSLT output: Transformer Factory class: class org.apache.xalan.... Apparently, the output is wrong. The string "A test event" should not have been displayed.

Following part 1 , change to stylesheet to: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... The XSLT output becomes: java Xslt test.xml test.xsl Transformer Fac... Parameter is not passed! The Xalan version that comes with JDK 1.6 processed this correctly: java -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=com....

With this XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <ev... and this XSL: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... The output of XSLT is: A test event Timestamp: 12886515008... You may not want the title string in the output. There are two ways to do this: Limit the apply-templates action with a select attribute: <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templat... Suppress default text node output with an empty template: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... Reference: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/defaultrule.html

Use the <xsl:with-param> and <xsl:param> tags to apply parameters to XSL stylesheets: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs...

XSLT by default writes namespace declarations in the output. Most of the time it's spurious, sometimes outright wrong. Take this XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <ev... And this XSL: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... where DateUtil.java is: import java.util.Date; public class DateUti... The output is (with JDK1.6): Title: <br xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/x... The namespace declaration went to the <br> element, not the timestamp where it belongs. To remove the namespace info, add exclude-result-prefixes to the XSL: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs...

In this note I'll show you how to create and package a JSP custom tag. The purpose of this tag is to display a random splash image for a home page, among a set of images. We should be able to add or delete candidate splash images from the WAR archive without the need to change the JSP. This is the intended use of the tag: <%@ taglib uri="http://custom.tag.com/demo" prefix... In the above example you provide a set of images named splash*.png (e.g., splash1.png, spalsh2.png, ...), and the tag will pick a random one to display when the JSP is rendered. Let's get started. I'll use Maven for this purpose. Create the standard Maven directory structure ./pom.xml ./src ./src/main ./src/main/jav... pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... SplashTag.java package tagdemo; import java.util.ArrayList......