Re: [Xalan2J] Using new Xalan2-TRaX interfaces for XalanLiaison.java

[Jeff Martin]

Sam Ruby wrote:
Jeff Martin wrote:
Whilst your in there you don't fancy trying to
add a new bit of functionality. I'd quite like
to use xpath to set ant property values from XML
documents. I've been think of doing it for a
while but never quite got into it.

Doesn't sound like a <style> task to me, but rather a different beast.  Can
you give me a use case for this function?
- Sam Ruby
Good point, I sometimes forget people can't read my mind. Your right 
it's not a job for the style task but I think it would need an addition 
to the XSLTLiason.

What I want to achieve is to have a task like this:
<xproperty expression="/cvs/repository/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 
property="module.name"/>
which sets the property ${module.name} to be the value in this XML file 
i.e. monkey
<cvs>
      <repository>
              <module name="monkey"/>
      </repository>
</cvs>

as far as multiple nodes being returned I suppose we could either throw 
a BuildException or concatanate them together some how, but that's 
probably a can of worms.

I'm quite happy to do the coding myself but it'll be a while as I don't 
know anything about using xpath in xalan ;0)