[xsl] Output non-XML string with XT v.19991105

["Xu, Xiaocun" <XXu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

	I have been using XSLT for almost a year now.  In my past projects,
I have been using Saxon and Xalan due to the transformation required
xsl:key.  In my current project, I have started to explore XT for the
performance improvement it provides.
	Currently, I ran into a problem trying to output non-XML string.  It
always seems to give me a problem at xsl.parse, getting a
NullPointerException with OutputStreamWriter (code and exception at end of
email).  
	The weird thing is, my method outputs XML string is just fine.  Also
I have another xt() method with a different signature outputs to a file
instead of string, that works fine for both XML and non-XML output.  Also,
both Saxon and Xalan methods I have ouputs XML and non-XML string just fine.
So I am little perplexed as what causes this exception ONLY when using XT
outputs non-XML string.  Any help and suggestions would be most welcomed.

Thanks,

Xiaocun Xu
Emptoris, Inc.
xxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException:
        at sun.io.Converters.getConverterClass(Converters.java:82)
        at sun.io.Converters.newConverter(Converters.java:128)
        at
sun.io.CharToByteConverter.getConverter(CharToByteConverter.java:71)
        at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.<init>(OutputStreamWriter.java:78)
        at
com.jclark.xsl.sax.GenericDestination.getWriter(GenericDestination.java)
        at com.jclark.xsl.sax.TextOutputHandler.init(TextOutputHandler.java)
        at
com.jclark.xsl.sax.OutputMethodHandlerImpl.createDocumentHandler(OutputMetho
d
HandlerImpl.java)
        at com.jclark.xsl.sax.ResultBase.setOutputMethod(ResultBase.java)
        at com.jclark.xsl.sax.ResultBase.start(ResultBase.java)
        at com.jclark.xsl.tr.SheetImpl.process(SheetImpl.java)
        at com.jclark.xsl.sax.XSLProcessorImpl.parse(XSLProcessorImpl.java)
        at Converter.xt(Converter.java:158)

Code:
    private static String xt(String inputXML, String stylesheet) {
        try {
	XSLProcessorImpl xsl = new XSLProcessorImpl();
	setParser(xsl);

	OutputMethodHandlerImpl outputMethodHandler = new
OutputMethodHandlerImpl(xsl);
	xsl.setOutputMethodHandler(outputMethodHandler);

            ByteArrayOutputStream dstWriter = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
	Destination dest = new OutputStreamDestination(dstWriter);
	outputMethodHandler.setDestination(dest);

            xsl.loadStylesheet(fileInputSource(new File(stylesheet)));

            xsl.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(inputXML) ));

            return(dstWriter.toString());
        }
        catch (SAXParseException e) {
            printSAXParseException(e);
        }
        catch (SAXException e) {
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e.toString());
        }
        return("FALSE");
    }



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