Re: [xsl] union vs. "or" vs. contains?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:05 PM 10/20/2004, Rob wrote:
> Wendell Piez wrote:
>
> > > Whatever I do, I want to keep processing completely controlled by the 
> > > configuration file.
> >
> > Maybe someone on this list who knows Ant better than I do (it's on my 
> > list!) can comment on how Ant (a Java build framework) could query a 
> > configuration file to determine which stylesheet to call when a job is 
> > invoked. A poor man's version of the same (though of course Ant is free) 
> > could use a batch file to run a transform on your config file, to create 
> > another batch file (in which the delegation could be managed), and then 
> > execute it. In other words, these things can be done.
>
>
> I haven't followed this thread too closely but in ant you can use 'input' 
> to allow the user to enter data at the command line. For example:
>
> <input
>   message="Enter an XSL file name:"
>   addproperty="xsl.name"/>
>
> <xslt
>   in="source.xml"
>   out="result.html"
>   style="${xsl.name}"/>

Ah, that's nice.

I presume it also wouldn't be hard to get a value for xsl.name by querying 
into an XML config document? or simply doing some kind of conditional 
testing to provide for a mapping of labels to stylesheets, or simply

<input
  message="Which format would you like?"
  addproperty="format"/>

<xslt
  in="source.xml"
  out="result.html"
  style="${format}.xsl"/>

Cheers,
Wendell


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