This code shows you how to use the instance methods from the
FileReader and
BufferedReader classes with a Xalan 2 processor to read the first line from a text file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl=
"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:FR="xalan://java.io.FileReader"
xmlns:BR="xalan://java.io.BufferedReader">
<xsl:output method="html" version="4.01" encoding="ISO-8859-1" indent="yes" media-
type="text/html" />
<xsl:variable name="file_reader" select=
"FR:new(string('C://Data_Local//XML//XSLT//in.txt'))" />
<xsl:variable name="buffered_reader" select="BR:new($file_reader)" />
<xsl:variable name="read" select="BR:readLine($buffered_reader)" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h3><xsl:value-of select="$read" /></h3>
...
Note: This tip was tested on Xalan, version 2.7.0.
