charToByteConverterClass-Error

[chandler.bing]

Hi,

I just wanted to try your Saxon.NET-Beta1 and rewrote some code from the saxon samples in VB.Net (see below). When I try to run it, I'm getting "Warning: Could not get charToByteConverterClass!", but there is no sun.io to import?!

Regards,
Bjoern

--- snip ---
' Create a transform factory instance.
Dim tfactory As TransformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance

' Create a transformer for the stylesheet.
Dim trans As Transformer = tfactory.newTransformer(New StreamSource("C:\docbook\xsl\profiling\profile.xsl"))

' Transform the source XML to System.out.
trans.transform(New StreamSource("02_docbook_mit_ausgewertetem_sql.xml"), New StreamResult(New java.io.File("saxon.net.xml")))
--- snap ---

[Pieter Siegers]

Hi Bjoern,

You may want to check the following snippet that I use in a C# WinForm example project (which I will finish shortly):

private void btnDoTransform_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    /// prepare transform process
    InitTransform();

    /// do transform
    if (blnTransform == true)
    {
        try
        {
            StreamSource inSource = new StreamSource(new java.io.FileInputStream(strAppPath + arrArgs[1]));
            StreamSource xsltSource = new StreamSource(new java.io.FileInputStream(strAppPath + arrArgs[2]));

            StreamResult outResult = new StreamResult();
            java.io.FileOutputStream fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream(strAppPath + arrArgs[0]);
            java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();

            if (outputToFile)
            {
                outResult.setOutputStream(fos);
            }
            else
            {
                outResult.setOutputStream(baos);
            }

            TransformerFactory transformF = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

            Transformer transF = transformF.newTransformer(xsltSource);

            transF.transform(inSource, outResult);

            fos.close();

            transF = null;
            transformF = null;
            outResult = null;
            xsltSource = null;
            inSource = null;
            fos = null;

            txtResult.Text = "Transformation of " + arrArgs[1] + " using " + arrArgs[2] + " is complete.";
            if (outputToFile)
                txtResult.Text += strCrLf + "The output has been written to " + arrArgs[0] + strCrLf;

            string s = System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ikvm.lang.ByteArrayHack.cast(baos.toByteArray()));

            StringReader sr = new StringReader(s);

            txtResult.Text += strCrLf + ConvOutputR(sr);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            txtResult.Text += ex.Message + strCrLf + ex.StackTrace;
        }
    }
}

Note that InitTransform() does some input argument preparation to set the variables to proper values.

HTH!

Cheers,
Pieter