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  /*
   * $Id$
   */
  
  import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
  import java.io.FileOutputStream;
  import java.io.IOException;
  
  import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
  import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
  import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
  import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
  import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
  import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
  
  /**
   *  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
    {  
    // 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("birds.xsl"));
  
  	// Use the Transformer to apply the associated Templates object to an XML document
  	// (foo.xml) and write the output to a file (foo.out).
  	transformer.transform(new StreamSource("birds.xml"), new StreamResult(new FileOutputStream("birds.out")));
  	
  	System.out.println("************* The result is in birds.out *************");
    }
  }
  