The <style/> task takes care of this already, I believe. It's definitely a useful feature.
Cheers, Chris Greenlee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [request] a xalan task for ant2 > > > > I think I'm too late for asking stuff, but here goes :) > > For my documentation, I often need to 'massage' my xml files, xalan is > perfect for that. > > It would be interesting if there was a xalan task that would > mimic the xalan > command line interface. > > In case you are curious, I like to have central files like todo.xml, > changes.xml, glossary.xml, data_requirement.xml, etc. > > Then inside my other xml files I do things like > <term ref-id="SOAP"/> > or > <data ref-id="Member"/> > > Each ref-id gets expanded from the value inside the proper > document. This > allows me to have proper .xsl formatting from the tags > depending on the > context. Using document() was way too complex for my taste > and completely > useless when an element had children. > > The resulting .xml files go to stylebook for final output. > > Oh, another use for that is to generate .pdf files from my xml files. > Stylebook doesn't support pdf output. > > Have fun guys > > Phil > > >
