code: public void startElement(
            StylesheetHandler handler, String uri, String localName, String rawName, Attributes attributes)
              throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
    {
      // Hmmm... for the moment I don't think I'll have default properties set for this. -sb
      m_outputProperties = new OutputProperties();
  
      m_outputProperties.setDOMBackPointer(handler.getOriginatingNode());
      m_outputProperties.setLocaterInfo(handler.getLocator());
      m_outputProperties.setUid(handler.nextUid());
      setPropertiesFromAttributes(handler, rawName, attributes, this);
      
      // Access this only from the Hashtable level... we don't want to 
      // get default properties.
      String entitiesFileName =
        (String) m_outputProperties.getProperties().get(OutputPropertiesFactory.S_KEY_ENTITIES);
  
      if (null != entitiesFileName)
      {
        try
        {
          String absURL = SystemIDResolver.getAbsoluteURI(entitiesFileName,
                      handler.getBaseIdentifier());
          m_outputProperties.getProperties().put(OutputPropertiesFactory.S_KEY_ENTITIES, absURL);
        }
        catch(TransformerException te)
        {
          handler.error(te.getMessage(), te);
        }
      }
      
      handler.getStylesheet().setOutput(m_outputProperties);
      
      ElemTemplateElement parent = handler.getElemTemplateElement();
      parent.appendChild(m_outputProperties);
      
      m_outputProperties = null;
    }
docs: Receive notification of the start of an xsl:output element.
  
  @param handler The calling StylesheetHandler/TemplatesBuilder.
  @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if the
  element has no Namespace URI or if Namespace
  processing is not being performed.
  @param localName The local name (without prefix), or the
  empty string if Namespace processing is not being
  performed.
  @param rawName The raw XML 1.0 name (with prefix), or the
  empty string if raw names are not available.
  @param attributes The attributes attached to the element.  If
  there are no attributes, it shall be an empty
  Attributes object.
  
  @throws org.xml.sax.SAXException