fop/test/java/org/apache/fop/visual/AbstractBitmapProducer.java

/*
 * Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.visual;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

/**
 * Abstract base class for converters.
 */
public abstract class AbstractBitmapProducer implements BitmapProducer {

    /** Logger */
    protected static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(AbstractBitmapProducer.class);
    
    /**
     * Returns a new JAXP Transformer based on information in the ProducerContext.
     * @param context context information for the process
     * @return a new Transformer instance (identity or set up with a stylesheet)
     * @throws TransformerConfigurationException in case creating the Transformer fails.
     */
    protected Transformer getTransformer(ProducerContext context) 
                throws TransformerConfigurationException {
        if (context.getTemplates() != null) {
            return context.getTemplates().newTransformer();
        } else {
            return context.getTransformerFactory().newTransformer();
        }
    }
    
}