9 Pipeline Definition Language for Java

Using Pipeline Definition Language

XML Pipeline definition Language from W3C, enables you to describe the processing relations between XML resources. A pipeline document specifies input and output of processes. A pipeline controller uses the pipeline document to execute the specified processes.

Oracle XML Pipeline Processor is built upon the XML Pipeline Definition Language Version 1.0, W3C Note 28 February 2002. The processor can take an input XML pipeline document and execute the pipeline processes according to the derived dependencies. The pipeline document is an XML document, and specifies the processes to be executed in a declarative manner. In addition to the XML Pipeline Processor, the XDK defines several Pipeline Processes which can be piped together in a pipeline document.

There are some differences between the W3C Note and the Oracle implementation. They are:

• The parser processes (DOMParserProcess and SAXParserProcess) are included in the XML pipeline (Section 1 of the note).

• Currently XML Base is not supported (Section 2.1)

• Only the final target output is checked to see if it is up-to-date with respect to the available pipeline inputs. The intermediate output of every process is not checked for being up-to-date. (Section 2.2).

• For the select attribute, anything between double-quotes "" is considered to be a string literal.

• The processor throws an error if more that one process produces the same infoset (Section 2.4.2.3).

• The document element is not supported, because it is redundant functionality (Section 2.4.2.8).

The Pipeline Definition Language is described at:

Example of a Pipeline Definition Language Application

The files for this example are in /xdk/demo/java.101/pipeline/. The application PipelineSample.java calls the pipeline document (an instance of the Pipeline Definition Language) named pipedoc.xml, which names book.xsl as the stylesheet to be used, myresult.html as the output HTML file, and book.xml as the XML document to be parsed. The processes are p2, p3, and p1 in the order given in pipedoc.xml. However, the processes are run in the order p1, p2, p3.

To run this example:

1. Add xmlparserv2.jar and the current directory to the CLASSPATH.

2. Use make to generate .class files.

3. Run the sample program:

   make demo
   
   

   Or run:

   java PipelineSample pipedoc.xml pipelog seq
   
   

   The first argument (pipedoc.xml) is the required pipeline document. pipelog is an optional log file that you name. If omitted, the default log file created is pipeline.log.

   seq can be either "para" or "seq", entered without the quotes. "seq" requests sequential processing. If omitted, the default mode is processing parallel threads, the same mode as if you entered "para".

4. View the pipeline target created, in this case myresult.html.

The error handler called by the Java program is PipelineSampleErrHdlr.java.

Here is book.xml, the input XML document with which you started the processing:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<booklist>
  <book>    
    <title>Twelve Red Herrings</title>
    <author>Jeffrey Archer</author>
    <publisher>Harper Collins</publisher>
    <price>7.99</price>      
  </book>
  <book>
    <title language="English">The Eleventh Commandment</title>
    <author>Jeffrey Archer</author>
    <publisher>McGraw Hill</publisher>   
    <price>3.99</price>
  </book>
  <book>
    <title language="English" country="USA">C++ Primer</title>
    <author>Lippmann</author>
    <publisher>Harper Collins</publisher>   
    <price>4.99</price>
  </book>          
  <book>
    <title>Emperor's New Mind</title>
    <author>Roger Penrose</author>
    <publisher>Oxford Publishing Company</publisher>
    <price>15.9</price>
  </book>          
  <book>
    <title>Evening News</title>
    <author>Arthur Hailey</author>
    <publisher>MaMillan Publishers</publisher>
    <price>9.99</price>
  </book>  
</booklist>

Here is pipedoc.xml, the pipeline document:

<pipeline xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/02/xml-pipeline"
                     xml:base="http://example.org/">

  <param name="target" select="myresult.html"/>

  <processdef name="domparser.p" definition="oracle.xml.pipeline.processes.DOMParserProcess"/>
  <processdef name="xslstylesheet.p" definition="oracle.xml.pipeline.processes.XSLStylesheetProcess"/>
  <processdef name="xslprocess.p" definition="oracle.xml.pipeline.processes.XSLProcess"/>


   <process id="p2" type="xslstylesheet.p" ignore-errors="false">
     <input name="xsl" label="book.xsl"/>
     <outparam name="stylesheet" label="xslstyle"/>
   </process>

   <process id="p3" type="xslprocess.p" ignore-errors="false">
     <param name="stylesheet" label="xslstyle"/>
     <input name="document" label="xmldoc"/>
     <output name="result" label="myresult.html"/>
   </process> 

  <process id="p1" type="domparser.p" ignore-errors="true">
     <input name="xmlsource" label="book.xml "/>
     <output name="dom" label="xmldoc"/>
     <param name="preserveWhitespace" select="true"></param>
     <error name="dom">
       <html xmlns="http://www/w3/org/1999/xhtml">
         <head>
            <title>DOMParser Failure!</title>
         </head>
         <body>
           <h1>Error parsing document</h1>
         </body>
       </html>
     </error>
  </process>


</pipeline>
  

The stylesheet book.xsl is listed next:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  
  <xsl:output method="xml"/> 

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <HTML>
      <HEAD>
      </HEAD>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </HTML>
  </xsl:template>
 
  <!-- document xsl:template -->

  <xsl:template match="booklist">
      <BODY BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF">
        <H1>List of books</H1>
        <P> This will illustrate the transformation of an XML file containing
            a list of books to an HTML table form </P>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
      </BODY>
  </xsl:template>
  
  <xsl:template match="booklist/book">
        <BR><B><xsl:apply-templates/></B></BR>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="booklist/book/title">
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="booklist/book/author">
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="booklist/book/publisher">
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="booklist/book/price">
       Price: $<xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  
</xsl:stylesheet>

The output is myresult.html in the /log subdirectory

<?xml version = '1.0'?>
<HTML><HEAD/><BODY BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF"><H1>List of books</H1><P> This will
 illustrate the transformation of an XML file containing list of books to an
 HTML table form </P>
  <BR/>    
    Twelve Red Herrings
    Jeffrey Archer
    
    
       Price: $7.99      
  
  <BR/>
    The Eleventh Commandment
    Jeffrey Archer
       
    
       Price: $3.99
  
  <BR/>
    C++ Primer
    Lippmann
       
    
       Price: $4.99
            
  <BR/>
    Emperor's New Mind
    Roger Penrose
    
    
       Price: $15.9
            
  <BR/>
    Evening News
    Arthur Hailey
    
    
       Price: $9.99
    
</BODY></HTML>

The Command-line Pipeline Tool orapipe

The command-line pipeline tool is named orapipe. Before running it for the first time, add xmlparserv2.jar to your CLASSPATH. orapipe must have at least one argument, the pipeline document (pipedoc.xml in the code example presented in the preceding section).

To run orapipe:

orapipe options pipedoc

where pipedoc is the required pipeline document you prepare in advance.

Table 9-1 describes the available options: