Parsing the XML document

Create a DocumentBuilderFactory object using the static method newInstance(). The factory class is used to create a DocumentBuilder parser.

DocumentBuilderFactory factory =DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

Create a DocumentBuilder parser from the DocumentBuilderFactory object using the newDocumentBuilder() method.

DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();

Parse the example XML document using one of the overloaded parse() methods.

File xmlFile = new File("catalog.xml");
Document document = builder.parse(xmlFile);

Generating the XSL-FO document

Create a TransformerFactory object using the static method newInstance(). The factory class is used to create a Transformer object.

TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

Create a Transformer object from the TransformerFactory object using the newTransformer() method.

File stylesheet = new File("catalog.xsl");
Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource...