public abstract void setAttribute (String name, Object value)

Allows the user to set specific attributes on the underlying implementation. An attribute in this context is defined to be an option that the implementation provides. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the underlying implementation doesn't recognize the attribute.

All implementations that implement JAXP 1.5 or newer are required to support the javax.xml.XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD and javax.xml.XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET properties.

• Access to external DTDs in the source file is restricted to the protocols specified by the javax.xml.XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD property. If access is denied during transformation due to the restriction of this property, javax.xml.transform.TransformerException will be thrown by javax.xml.transform.Transformer.transform(Source, Result).

  Access to external DTDs in the stylesheet is restricted to the protocols specified by the javax.xml.XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD property. If access is denied during the creation of a new transformer due to the restriction of this property, javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException will be thrown by the newTransformer(Source) method.

  Access to external reference set by the stylesheet processing instruction, Import and Include element is restricted to the protocols specified by the javax.xml.XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET property. If access is denied during the creation of a new transformer due to the restriction of this property, javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException will be thrown by the newTransformer(Source) method.

  Access to external document through XSLT document function is restricted to the protocols specified by the property. If access is denied during the transformation due to the restriction of this property, javax.xml.transform.TransformerException will be thrown by the javax.xml.transform.Transformer.transform(Source, Result) method.

Parameters:

name		The name of the attribute.
value		The value of the attribute.

Exceptions:

IllegalArgumentException

When implementation does not recognize the attribute.