XSL Transformation through a servlet

[LuckyKoen]

I have a servlet that uses the TransformerFactory to produce html from an XML and XSL document. I only want to show a specific part of the XML document however, and which part depends on another function in the servlet.

I'm not sure how to approach this problem. Should I first edit the xsl file and then do the transformation ? Should I first select the xml data I need before doing the transformation ? Or are there better alternatives ?

 

[flumpy]

answer:

you can do either.

if its a particularly large set of data, use xpath and Dom Document methods to select the correct XML snippet and then transform it using xslt (i am guessing its marginally faster this way).

or

if its a small xml file, just use xslt to transform the bit of the file you need.

either way, both will work nicely.