Re: [xsl] How to recover/continue from XML Transformation exception?

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not entirely clear from your question, but if you are calling 
transformer.transform() once for each XML file to be processed, you can 
catch the Java exception and continue.

for(Source source : sources) {
   try {
      transformer.transform(source);
   } catch (TransformerException err) {
      System.err.println("This one failed");
   }
}

On the other hand, if you are calling transform() once to process all 
the XML files, you will need to use an XSLT try/catch. This is available 
in XSLT 3.0 (aka 2.1), and implemented in Saxon 9.3: you will need the 
commercial edition.

Incidentally, if you are using the same stylesheet to process many 
files, I recommend reusing the JAXP Templates object, but creating a new 
Transformer object for each transformation.

Michael Kay
Saxonica


On 17/11/2010 07:44, Jack Bush wrote:
> Hi All,
>   
> I have an Java application that continually transforms a single XML file at a
> time which would fail every now and then, possibly due to corrupted data (not an
> issue). However, the transformation process below using Saxon 9.1 would crashed
> completely:
>       Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer(new
> StreamSource(StyleSheet));
>      JDOMSource areaSource = new JDOMSource(OriginaljdomXMLDocument);
>      JDOMResult areaResult = new JDOMResult();
>      transformer.transform(source, result);
>   As a result, is it possible to recover/continue from ad-hoc XML transformation?
> If so, how could this be done?
>   
> Thanks a lot,
> Jack