RE: [xsl] Command Line XSLT programs

["Diamond, Jason" <Jason.Diamond@xxxxxxx>]

Isn't this what Makefiles are for? Create an inference rule from .xml to
.html, add your list of files, and let 'er rip. The Windows shell even has
enough scriptability to generate the list of files in a directory from the
command line. I do this to make Makefiles for whole diretories of XML files
that need to be transformed. You only have to regenerate the Makefile when
you add or remove a file.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:11 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Command Line XSLT programs
> 
> 
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to apply an XSLT to
> > multiple XML docs at
> > the same time. My company has a "document-base" in XML that 
> they want
> > converted into HTML. So instead of me doing them one by one
> > with MSXSL and
> > MSXML 4.0.
> >
> Sure. It's probably best in this scenario to script it 
> yourself: for MSXML
> this would probably be JavaScript, for other processors it 
> would be Java.
> Look up the API documentation for your processor. Compile the 
> stylesheet
> once, then use it repeatedly to process a list of source documents.
> 
> You can process multiple source documents from within a 
> single stylesheet
> execution, by using the document() function, but that's 
> probably not the
> right approach here.
> 
> Doing it as a command-line script, processing the stylesheet 
> from scratch
> each time, would be a lot less efficient. MSXML does have a 
> command-line
> interface, but you don't really want it here.
> 
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
> home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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