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Transform Timing Program

This is a Java program used to time the performance of the Xalan XSLT processor.


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// Imported TraX classes
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;


// Imported java classes
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Date;

/**
 *  Use the TraX interface to perform a transformation in the simplest manner possible
 *  (3 statements).
 */
public class SimpleTransform
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
    throws TransformerException, TransformerConfigurationException, 
           FileNotFoundException, IOException
  { 
	long start_time = new Date().getTime();
	long start_transform_time;
	long end_time;

  // Use the static TransformerFactory.newInstance() method to instantiate 
  // a TransformerFactory. The javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory 
  // system property setting determines the actual class to instantiate --
  // org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.
	TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
	
	// Use the TransformerFactory to instantiate a Transformer that will work with  
	// the stylesheet you specify. This method call also processes the stylesheet
  // into a compiled Templates object.
	Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(args[1]));

	// Use the Transformer to apply the associated Templates object to an XML document
	// (foo.xml) and write the output to a file (foo.out).
	start_transform_time = new Date().getTime();
	
	transformer.transform(new StreamSource(args[0]), new StreamResult(new FileOutputStream(args[2])));
	end_time = new Date().getTime();
	System.out.println("Total msec to generate " + args[2] + ": " +
		(end_time-start_time) +
		" transform time: " + (end_time - start_transform_time) );
  }
}