RE: Invoking Saxon from ANT

Hi Brett

Thanks for confirming what I had discovered.

For reference, the 'not-easy' way I currently use is:

    <java fork="true" jar="C:/Tools/Saxon/saxon7.jar">
      <arg line="-o out.xml"/>
      <arg line="in.xml"/>
      <arg line="stylesheet.xsl"/>
    </java>

rather than the hoped for 'easy' way

    <!-- some magic Saxon configuration operation -->
    <xslt style="stylesheet.xsl" in="in.xml" out="out.xml"/>

or slightly less easy way documented in the ANT pages:

        <xslt style="stylesheet.xsl" in="in.xml" out="out.xml">
        <factory name="net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl"/>
                </factory>
        </xslt>

Unfortunately the above doesn't work - "factory" is not recognised.

I don't like changing near-system settings for potentially
local preferences, so I was hoping that there was some
standard ANT task available to do either a

System.setProperty("...")

or a saxon7.jar entry-point to do

System.setProperty("javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory",
        "net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl")

before I wrote yet another one.

        Regards
                        
                Ed Willink

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Knights 
> [mailto:brett-t37+GO5IUUYNrLj0LK0ixEEOCMrvLtNR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 January 2004 15:51
> To: saxon-help-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [saxon] Invoking Saxon from ANT
> 
> 
> I think you mean
> <java classname="com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet"
> classpathref="saxon.classpath" fork="true">
> 
> as WinStyleSheet is meant to be used with the MS JVM.
> 
> I don't think that will work reliablye unless you also add:
> <jvmarg
> value="-Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=com.icl.saxon.Transfor
> merFactoryImpl"/>
> 
> IMO though the easiest way is to create or update your
> $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/jaxp.properties file to include:
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=com.icl.saxon.TransformerFactor
> yImpl
> 
> that way the Saxon 6 xslt processor will always be the xslt processor
> that is used by ant's Style task.
> Unfortunately the Style task itself doesn't include a mechanism for
> selecting a specific processor.
> 
> HTH
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Benny" <david-benny-8d3DuiPIw7lBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <saxon-help-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 6:09 AM
> Subject: RE: [saxon] Invoking Saxon from ANT
> 
> 
> > Try something like
> >
> > <java classname="com.icl.saxon.WinStyleSheet"
> > classpathref="saxon.classpath" fork="true">
> > <arg value="-o"/>
> > <arg value="out.xml"/>
> > <arg value="in.xml"/>
> > <arg value="transform.xsl"/>
> > </java>
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: saxon-help-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:saxon-help-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> >  Behalf Of Willink,
> Ed
> > Sent: 26 January 2004 11:55
> > To: Saxon Help List (E-mail)
> > Subject: [saxon] Invoking Saxon from ANT
> >
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > Is there an easy way to invoke Saxon as the XSLT support within ANT?
> >
> > It seems that the ANT Trax support needs just a little bit of help
> > from saxon7.jar.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Ed Willink
> >
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