Re: [xsl] Parsing xml with saxon

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> There's a fair bit of information on running Saxon transformations from an
> Ant task if you look around. For example
>
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/11/ant-xml.html?page=2

You don't need mtxslt anymore (at least with the latest 1.6.5 release).

See:

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/style.html

For example you can:

<xslt
  basedir="source/xml/dir"
  destdir="output/dir"
  style="some.xsl">

  <factory name="net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl">
<!-- example feature -->
    <attribute 
name="http://saxon.sf.net/feature/allow-external-functions"; value="fasle"/>
  </factory>

</xslt>

Of course Saxon will need to be on the classpath for the ant run. The 
easiest way to do that is place the saxon jar in in the $ANT_HOME/lib dir.

best,
-Rob