Conor MacNeill wrote:
>
> > From: Eric Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > BTW, it would be nice if embedding ant was considered as a design
> > criteria in the next major release. Ant seems to work very well if run
> > standalone or from a script but running from Java is tough at least as
> > far as I've tried so far(Although i'd certainly not be an expert on this
> > topic).
>
> Eric, what are you finding tough. There are some issues currently for sure,
> but it can be done and I believe it has been done in products such as
> NetBeans. The best approach is usually to create your own Project object and
> manage it from within your app, much the same way as Main.java does now.
I tried running it with an exec from java. I didn't think to look at
Main.java to embed.
I'm taking a different approach which I think is better but still having
problems. I need to pass two different locations on the file system to
ant. I'm using -D with absolute paths. This is the last part of the
simple shell wrapper.
build_file="-buildfile ${doc_root}/src/example/build.xml"
d_opts="-Ddoc_root=${doc_root} -Djdocbook_home=${jdocbook_home}"
# run ant
${jdocbook_home}/jakarta-ant-1.3/bin/ant ${d_opts} ${build_file} "$@"
In the ant file I try to use
<!-- Incoming -D properties: jdocbook_home, doc_root -->
<property name="jdocbook.home" location="${jdocbook_home}"/>
<property name="doc.root" location="${doc_root}"/>
These are absolute and correct but now I can't build path from these
such as
<!-- docbook xsl/dtd properties -->
<property name="driver.root" location="${jdocbook.home}/drivers"/>
<property name="xhtml.driver"
location="${driver.root}/xhtmldriver.xsl"/>
<property name="fo.driver" location="${driver.root}/fodriver.xsl"/>
It seems to look at these and add the relative path to the front. Is the
problem the evaluate sequence so that ${xxx} gets evalated after and the
location rule "if it starts with / don't mess with it" doesn't get
followed?.
I got style to work but only when my pieces were all in the same place.
>From my style command target.
<target name="style" depends="prepare">
<style basedir="${input.dir}"
destdir="${output.dir}"
extension=".html"
style="${xhtml.driver}" >
<include name="${input.file}"/>
</style>
</target>
Here is the bad output(*** my additions ***):
style:
[style] Transforming into
/home/maxwell/jdocbook2/docroot/docs/example
[style] Loading stylesheet
/home/maxwell/jdocbook2/docroot/src/example/home/maxwell/jdocbook2/drivers/xhtmldriver.xsl
*** local build path added ***
[style] Failed to read stylesheet
/home/maxwell/jdocbook2/drivers/xhtmldriver.xsl
*** this is what I want ***
BUILD FAILED
/home/maxwell/jdocbook2/docroot/src/example/build.xml:86:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: File
"file:/home/maxwell/jdocbook2/docroot/src/example/home/maxwell/jdocbook2/drivers/xhtmldriver.xsl"
not found.
*** same as first one ***
>
> Let us know the details of the issues you are having and we can help more.
>
> Conor
Two things I could use help with, the path thing above,
and how to get the classpath to the style task. I have this already in
my file which worked before when I called xalan with a java task.
<path id="xalan.classpath">
<fileset dir="${xalan.dir}/bin">
<include name="xalan.jar"/>
<include name="xerces.jar"/>
<include name="bsf.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
Thanks,
Eric
