10.1 The Framework

• The javax.xml.transform package introduces the factory class for getting a transformer.
• The factory might be supplied with a (XSLT) set of translation rules.
• The transformer is provided an input Source object, an output Result object, and a transform method.
• The input, output, and translation rules may employ representations offered by classes of the following packages.
  • javax.xml.transform.stream: represents documents as streams of XML text
  • javax.xml.transform.dom: represents documents as DOM document trees
  • javax.xml.transform.sax: represents documents as sequences of SAX method calls
• A DOM tree transformation into a stream is said to be a serialization.