Inasmuch as Ant is good at re-running an XSLT transformation or a series of transformations when the XML source changes but not so good at re-running when one of the transformations’ stylesheets’ sub-modules changes, it’s a simple thing to generate on-the-fly a temporary build file containing paths listing the dependencies of each stylesheet so Ant can do the right thing. Continue reading “Multi-stage XSLT in Ant”
XML Calabash Ant task
Inasmuch as I’d been threatening since the XML Summer School last year to do it, I’ve made a custom Ant task for running XML Calabash, currently only in my fork at git@github.com:MenteaXML/xmlcalabash1.git.
You can use this task to process:
- A single input file to produce a single output file
- A set of input files, processed one at a time, to produce a set of output files
- Multiple input files as the input to one XProc input port processed to produce a single output file
- Any of the above with additional input ports to each of which are applied one or more input files whose file names may be either fixed or mapped from the name(s) of the current main input file(s)
- Any of the above with additional output ports whose file names may be either fixed or mapped from the name(s) of the current main input file(s)
- Any of the above with Ant defaulting to not running the pipeline when the outputs are already up-to-date compared to the inputs and the pipeline
You can also specify options and parameters to be used by the pipeline. Continue reading “XML Calabash Ant task”
Emacs mode for Ant build files
Inasmuch as it’s useful, when editing an Ant build file, to have a list of the targets in the file and the ability to jump to any of them, my Ant mode at git@github.com:tkg/ant-mode.git currently only does two things: make a “Ant” menu that lists all the targets and associates a RELAX NG compact syntax schema with build files. Continue reading “Emacs mode for Ant build files”
Saxon feature keys for initial template and mode
Inasmuch as a “feature key” is how you configure a Java JAXP XSLT processor, it’s good to see that Saxon 9.3 has added feature keys for setting the initial template and initial mode. In fact, Saxon has gone from 30 feature keys in Saxon 9.0 to 70 in 9.2 and now 79 in 9.3.
Where this becomes useful (outside of your own Java programs) is being able to specify the initial template and/or mode in the <xslt> task in Ant build files. Continue reading “Saxon feature keys for initial template and mode”
Ant for EPUB
Inasmuch as I like to automate processes as much as possible, here’s two Ant targets/macros for automating zipping an EPUB file and checking it with epubcheck: Continue reading “Ant for EPUB”
XSpec, Ant, and <oXygen/>
Inasmuch as software has moved on since 2008 when I wrote about When Ant is subsidiary to <oXygen/>, I now run XSpec from <oXygen/> using the Ant bundled with recent <oXygen/>. Continue reading “XSpec, Ant, and <oXygen/>”
When Ant is subsidiary to <oXygen/>
The <oXygen/> documentation has an “Testing XSLT” tutorial at XTech 2008. Continue reading “When Ant is subsidiary to <oXygen/>”
“Could not find a valid processor version implementation” with Ant junitreport task
Running some JUnit tests with Ant 1.6.5 gave this error when the <junitreport> task ran:
build.xml:160: The following error occurred while executing this line: build.xml:367: Could not find a valid processor version implementation from net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl
I know of two possible solutions:
- Upgrade to using Ant 1.7.0, or
- Set ANT_OPTS thus:
declare -x \\ ANT_OPTS=-Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl