> Ben, as an alternative approach which does not depend on introducing > side-effects into xslt processing, perhaps you could instead write a > stylesheet which transforms your input document into a scripting > language, then execute that scripting language? Perhaps jelly (an > xml-based scripting language being developed in the apache commons > project) would be an appropriate scripting language. I don't know if > jelly already has mkdir/copy/move tags, but I suspect it does, or would > be happy to accept implementations of them. >
I'd also suggest using Ant (jakarta.apache.org/ant) as the execution engine. Since Ant's build files are XML, it's very easy to create them with Xalan. Plus Ant has the style task to run Xalan. A further bonus is that the entire process can be run in one JVM, avoiding process switching. Example code follows. <project default=""> <target name="foils"> <style style="build.xsl" in="mapframe.xml" out="build/build-swf.xml" > </style> <ant antfile="build/build-swf.xml"/> </target> </project>
