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Re: [docbook-apps] ant and db5, xinclude and fo output

  • 1.  Re: [docbook-apps] ant and db5, xinclude and fo output

    Posted 04-10-2008 12:46
    On Thu, Apr 10 2008 11:36:06 +0100, davep@dpawson.co.uk wrote:
    > My latest foray into ant:
    ...
    > <target name="fo" depends="init, clean.pdf">
    > <echo>Generate the fo output</echo>
    > <java classname="${xslt.processor.class}"
    > fork="yes"
    > dir="${in.dir}"
    > failonerror="true">
    > <classpath refid="xslt.processor.classpath" />
    > <jvmarg
    > line="-Dorg.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration=org.apache.xerces.parsers.XIncludeParserConfiguration"/>
    > <jvmarg
    > line="-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl"/>
    > <jvmarg
    > line="-Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl"/>
    > <arg line="-o ${out.fo.dir}/${main.fo.outfile}"/>
    > <arg line="-l"/>
    > <arg line="-x org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader"/>
    > <arg line="-y org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader"/>
    > <arg line="-r org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.CatalogResolver "/>
    > <arg line="${in.dir}/${main.infile} ${main.fo.stylesheet} " />
    > </java>
    > </target>
    >

    The Ant manual [1] recommends <arg value="..."/> rather than <arg
    line="..."/>. Doing so needs more elements, but it's safer to use.

    Why are you using the <java> task rather than the <xslt> task? IMO,
    using the <xslt> task makes using XML catalogs with Ant much easier.

    You could also make a macro for the transformation so you wouldn't need
    to repeat everything just to change three filenames.

    ...
    > It might be nicer to use xmllint to expand the includes and validate,
    > but I haven't figured out how to get ant to do that.

    <exec> [2].

    Regards,


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    [1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#arg
    [2] http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html
    I don't know why it's showing as "beta" since it was in earlier
    versions of Ant than the Ant 1.7 currently documented at this URL.



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