> I can find plenty of examples and tutorials for chaining the 
> output from one SAXTransformer to the input of another, but I 
> can't find any examples when the starting point is a Template 
> object. 

It sounds as if you want to generate a SAXTransformer from a Templates
object, which is trivial: you use the newTransformerHandler(Templates)
method of class SAXTransformerFactory.

But perhaps I missed the point of the question?

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> The reason that I want to to use Templates is that I 
> will have a large number of threads performing a 
> transormations using two standard XSL stylesheets so I want 
> to avoid the overhead of re-processing the transform 
> instructions every time. TemplateHandler looks like it might 
> be a starting point but the Javadoc implies that a 
> TemplateHandler won't pre-process the transform instructions.
> 
> Is this possible and, if so, can someone point me towards 
> some examples.
> 
> Regards
> Roger
> 
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