XTDE0820: Invalid element name. Invalid QName {}

That's what you'd get if $name was empty as  <xsl:element
name="{$name}"> would be  <xsl:element name="{''}"> trying to make the
element <> which is an error.

Is this the right call? Others are better placed to answer jaxp questions

transformer.setParameter("name", "note");


David

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