Xalan Processor Package.

Parses an XSLT stylesheet document (which may include and import other stylesheet documents) and produces a StylesheetRoot (a TRaX Templates object).

StylesheetProcessor implements the TRaX {@link javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory} interface, as well as the {@link javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXTransformerFactory} interface. It registers the {@link org.apache.xalan.processor.StylesheetHandler} object (a TrAX {@link javax.xml.transform.sax.TemplatesHandler} implementation) as the SAX ContentHandler for an XMLReader, and uses the XMLReader to parse the stylesheet document.

Before parsing the XSLT input, StylesheetHandler assembles an {@link org.apache.xalan.processor.XSLTSchema}, which uses {@link org.apache.xalan.processor.XSLTElementDef} and {@link org.apache.xalan.processor.XSLTAttributeDef} objects to recursively define the elements and attributes that an XSLT stylesheet may contain. The StylesheetHandler then passes on each parse event to the {@link org.apache.xalan.processor.XSLTElementProcessor} which the XSLTElementDef assigned to the element associated with that event.