RE: xslt Task

> The XSLT runs fine together with Saxon processor. Then use the Saxon processor in ANT. I set the CLASSPATH to include the saxon.jar file, then I set the value of the "processor" attribute to "trax" as shown below. processor="trax" -- Charles Knell ckn...@onebox.com - email -Origina

RE: Re: macrodef and classpath

The variable is defined in the build.xml file. The only thing the macrodef file needs to have in advance in the name of the attribute, not the value. -- Charles Knell ckn...@onebox.com - email -Original Message- From: Mark Waschkowski Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:28:38 -0500 To:

RE: macrodef and classpath

I set up properties in the "init" target and use references to them in the macrodefs. Here's an example I then refer to the property in the macrodef ex.

RE: Re: Ant's preferred location of toolkit.jar?

Thanks. That did the trick. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Vijay Aravamudhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:55:43 -0800 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant's preferred location of toolkit.jar? set the JAVA_HOME environ

Ant's preferred location of toolkit.jar?

I have just installed Ant on a laptop I haven't used previously for development. When I ran ant.bat, I got a message telling me that Ant couldn't find toolkit.jar in my jre directory. The file is is my jdk directory. I searched the ant.bat file and couldn't find where to tell ant to look in the

RE: Re: Ant vs Apache

No, you're not. Remember, "Them!" (1954)? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:18:36 -0500 (EST) To: "Ant Users List" Subject: Re: Ant vs Apache Ant vs. Apache ... am I the onl

RE: AW: Memory and Ant

-- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Knuplesch, Jürgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:43:40 +0200 To: "Ant Users List" Subject: AW: Memory and Ant Hi Sumit, Thank you for the answer!! I did not understand, where I have

Set property value via Java

Is there a method for setting a property's value to the return value of a Java program? I have a Java program that executes an XPath query and returns a string. How can I create a property from this returned string? Thanks. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -

RE: help regarding ANT.

You may get more help if you give more information. Ant is telling you that it cannot find a class that it needs. This is very likely a classpath issue (that's something that takes a while for new Java programmers to get used to). Post your build.xml file and we may be able to offer more help af

RE: AW: FOP task, what changed from 0.92beta to 0.94?

Thanks. I'll try over there. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:30:08 +0200 To: Subject: AW: FOP task, what changed from 0.92beta to 0.94? The fop task is not maintained by the Ant team. I thi

FOP task, what changed from 0.92beta to 0.94?

I recently downloaded FOP version 0.94, upgrading from 0.92beta. My build.xml file now fails when I execute the fop task, giving this error: build.xml:105: java.lang.NoClassDefFound Error: org/apache/xmlgraphics/util/Service It seems that something has changed in FOP that breaks the Ant FOP task

RE: Re: Editing an XML file using ant

Have a look at these two revised files from my earlier proposed solution. By adding the namespaces to the root element in both insert.xml and web.xml, you will get the output you want, and the namespace declarations appear only once, in the root element of the output. insert.xml ===

RE: Editing an XML file using ant

I downloaded the xmltask-v1.15.1.jar file and placed it in the lib subdirectory of my ant installation. I prepared this web.xml file: html text/html I prepared this insert.xml file: txt text/plain I then wrote this build.xml file: I

Re: Java error in heretofore stable, working task

Thanks to you and to Ruel. Mea culpa, but I don't understand why some classes tacked on to the end of the CLASSPATH would override the Saxon which is at the beginning, but they did. I was trying out DITA (OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture) and I tacked some classes for it onto the en

Java error in heretofore stable, working task

Pertinent facts: Ant - version 1.7.0 JDK - version 1.5.0.06 I have a task that has been performing as expected for about five months. Today, with no change in the version of Ant, the build.xml file, the JDK, the stylesheet, or the XSLT processor, this error occurred for the first time (and appe

RE: Re: How can I capture a file's date to a property?

Thanks again. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Dale Anson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:13:41 -0600 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: How can I capture a file's date to a property? What those mean is that there are other

RE: Re: How can I capture a file's date to a property?

Thanks. That does it, but what's the story on this set of messages that are displayed when I run the task? Trying to override old definition of task antcallback Trying to override old definition of task antfetch Trying to override old definition of task assert Trying to override old definition of

RE: Re: How can I capture a file's date to a property?

There are a number of problems with the example task: - The opening and closing tag names do not match ("fileutil" vs. "fileutils"). - The tag is not closed. Even after correcting for these, I get an error message from ant when I run the target: -

RE: RE: How can I capture a file's date to a property?

That sounds like what I need. I look into it later today. Thanks. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Rebhan, Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:48:51 +0200 To: "Ant Users List" Subject: RE: How can I capture a file's da

How can I capture a file's date to a property?

I'm writing a target that will update a file. I'd like to preserve the exisiting version of the file by renaming it and incorporating its date in the file name. I've have found several tasks for copying and renaming files and directories, but no way to get the file's date-stamp. Am I simply not

RE: Edit XML-Files with Ant

Use the task. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:08:15 +0200 To: Subject: Edit XML-Files with Ant Hi, I'm using Ant to generate an update site from my RCP-project. In this project I have

Problem with task

Consider this task: The result of this tidies all the .htm files in ${base-dir}/sub1 and places them in in "destdir". It ignores a .htm file in ${base-dir}. I have elminated the possibility that the problem is in by running this experimental target:

jtidy task operates on a fileset but won't operate on a single file

I am automating a process of turning MS Excel 2000 Workbooks into XSLT files for producing reports from a database in Excel format. I am at the point where I'm moving upstream in automating the process. I want to prep the output from an Excel "Save As HTML" operation as a step in converting the

RE: Seeking clear explanation of jtidy task properties

O.K. I found what I was looking for, but it wasn't easy. If anyone else should have this problem in the future, the description of the available properties is at: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html The controlling property for this issue is not obvious from the name. It is: "drop-f

Seeking clear explanation of jtidy task properties

I am working with the ant jtidy task for the first time. It produces output that I didn't expect based on my experience using HTML Tidy embedded in my programmer's editor (UltraEdit). Specifically, jtidy is adding its own section and inserting class attributes from that section in elements in

How to?: run a custom Java program against a

I have prepared a Java program to use regexes to swap a list of strings for others in a text file. I'd like to create an Ant that would run the program against a set of files located in a specific directory. At first glance, it seems that I should be able to use the type and the task to do t

RE: Re: Re: Does anyone know where I can find jtiday.jar?

Thanks. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Mark C. Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:54:37 -0600 To: "Ant Users List" Subject: Re: Re: Does anyone know where I can find jtiday.jar? On 5/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMA

RE: Re: Does anyone know where I can find jtiday.jar?

The only download at that URL is jtidy-04aug2000r7-dev.zip. It does not contain a file like org.w3c.tidy.ant.JTidyTask. Does anyone know where this can be found, or do I need to know a magic word in order to change something that is in that ZIP file into JTidyTask? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTE

Does anyone know where I can find jtiday.jar?

I've been Googling around and have found several references to the Ant JTidy task. I've even found the source code to the task itself, but if I don't have to download all the component files to build it, I'd be much happier. Does anyone know where I can download the jtidy.jar file? -- Charles

RE: Re: How to set the next week start date

That's fine, but: On what day (for your purposes) does a week start? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Satheesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:16:50 +0530 To: "Ant Users List" Subject: Re: How to set the next week start

RE: How to set the next week start date

On what day (for your purposes) does a week start? Will you take holidays into account? If so, what country's holidays will figure in? Are there any local holidays that should be taken into account? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Satheesh <[EMAI

RE: Question about loop in Ant

http://www.cenqua.com/fisheye/demo/browse/~raw,r=1.4/ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sequential.html -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Farid Izem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:32:12 +0100 To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: Questio

RE: Re: Adding a year to tstamp date

Thanks, I just noticed the oversight of omitting the unit attribute. I solved the issue this way. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Joel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:57:11 -0600 To: Ant Users List

Adding a year to tstamp date

I have a need to set the value of a property to the current fiscal year. For this purpose, that means that when running a build in October, November, or December, the value must be the current year +1. In any other month, the value is the same as the current year. I thought something like this

RE: How to execute Dos Command (Wrap...) using Ant

Investigate the ANT task. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Yadav Ganesh-C01503 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:32:35 -0500 To: "Ant Users List" Subject: How to execute Dos Command (Wrap...) using Ant Hello there, I am tr

Problem with FOP and classpath

I went to the ANT site and found instructions on adding an FOP task to a build. (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.93/anttask.html) My environment is Win2K. The example given at the site is: My

RE: Re: Is it possible to "subclass" a macrodef?

Thanks. I'll just re-work the existing one and put it directly in the build file. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:42:34 -0600 To: "Ant Users List" Subject: Re: Is it pos

Is it possible to "subclass" a macrodef?

I have a macrodef that I use in a number of build files. I now have a new project where I'd like to use this macrodef, but I need to add an attribute to the three defined in it. In a sense, I'd like to "subclass" this macrodef, changing nothing but making an addition to the attribute list. Can

RE: Re: Classpath failure has me mystified.

Bingo! Thanks. That's exactly what I wasn't seeing. You've solved my problem. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:46:38 +0100 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Classpath failure ha

RE:Classpath failure has me mystified.

Thanks. I tried them both but didn't see anything I didn't expect to see. I am still no closer to an answer. = Execute:Java13CommandLauncher: Executing 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\jr bin\java.exe' with arguments: '-classpath' 'H:\SARS-reports-j\sars.jar;C:\oracl

Classpath failure has me mystified.

My problem: When running a build file, I get this error message: [java] Error in FetchDataAsXML.getXML(): java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver The relevant sections of the build file:

Capture returned value from Java?

I'm confused about the "outputproperty" attribute of the task. The manual says of it, "The name of a property in which the output of the command should be stored. Unless the error stream is redirected to a separate file or stream, this property will include the error output." My questions are:

re :How to get debug info on java task failure]

I found a typo was causing my error. Thanks. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:31:16 -0400 To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: RE: Re: How to get debug info on java task failure The %ERRORLEVEL%

RE: Re: How to get debug info on java task failure

The %ERRORLEVEL% value is 0, so I'm really no closer to understanding why the execution of the class works at the command line and fails in Ant. Is there a way to get more information from Ant? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Peter Reilly <[EMAI

How to get debug info on java task failure

I am executing a single task. I have the failonerror attribute set to "true". It fails, but I don't have any information to work with. This is the target. SQL string is ${sql.string} The output I get is: "BUILD FAILED H:\dev\java\buildj.xml:46

RE: Re: RE: Ant Task for FOP

You are far more likely to get a useful answer if you post your question with a relevant Subject: line. What you have done is to ask a new question by using an email reply to an unrelated topic. This is called "highjacking a thread" and is considered impolite on email lists. Please re-post with

RE: Ant Task for FOP

Use the "style" or "xslt" task (two-names, same function). Of course, use of those presumes that you are handy with XSLT. If not, you may want to see the XSL list hosted by MulberryTech. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Re: Command line arguments with task.

> Have you tried using -lib saxon.jar on the command line? This puts > saxon first on the classpath, which makes Trax load it instead of the > default JDK-provided XSLT engone. Yes, to no effect. As for the help with Plan B. Thanks, I've got that working on my computer (which had no problem with

Command line arguments with task.

Last week I had a problem when installing ANT, a build file, and some supporting files on three computers at my workplace. On two of the three computers I was not able to force the task to use the XSLT transformer I choose. At least that appeared to be the problem because the error messages se

RE: RE: Re: Setting the value of a property conditonally

If anyone was still scratching his or her head over my inability to see what's in front of me, please stop before you bleed. I've got it worked out. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:18:32 -0400 To:

RE: Re: Setting the value of a property conditonally

Thanks to everyone who contributed. I now know the design decision that lays behind the functioning of . My Java is only now having the rust knocked off it, so I'm chary of trying to write a custom task for this purpose. I have been working on Plan B, creating the intermediate XML file from whi

RE: RE: RE: Setting the value of a property conditonally

I'll have to think it over. It sounds reasonable at first glance. Thanks. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Tshepo Rachidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:41:37 +0200 To: "Ant Users List" Subject: RE: RE: Setting the value o

RE: RE: Setting the value of a property conditonally

Your example shows exactly the limitation I'm trying to get around. There are only two possible values that "hasMoney" can take in your example. Either "hasMoney" is "true" or "hasMoney" is false. I'm faced with a situation that calls for me to select the previous "business day". In the U.S. bu

Setting the value of a property conditonally

I've been testing the task and either it is very limited in its functioning or I am carrying the wrong mental model into the exercise. I work mostly in XSLT these days. There I can set the value of a variable by testing any number of conditions and nested conditions using the element. appea

Re: Problem choosing XSLT processer with

So far I have set up this configuration on four computers. Each is running Win2K. Each has the JAVA SDK 5 installed in C:\Program Files (because that's where Sun's installer puts it.) All environment variables are configured alike in respect to the programs involved. On two computers the setup

RE: Re: Problem choosing XSLT processer with

-Original Message- > From: Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:44:40 -0400 > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Problem choosing XSLT processer with

RE: Re: Problem choosing XSLT processer with

OK, I'm back at work and the diagnostics switch worked as expected. I redirected standard out to a file so I could examine it more easily. On my computer (one that does use the XSLT engine I specified) the result showed an XML section that described the XML parser, but there was no mention of XS

RE: Re: Problem choosing XSLT processer with

I'm at home now and not at work. I haven't used Ant on this computer before. I opened a Windows command-line, switched to the Ant\bin directory and typed "ant -diagnostics" at the prompt. The result was this: Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\bin was unexpected at this time. What have I done wrong here? -

Problem choosing XSLT processer with

I'm having a problem with choosing an XSLT processor to use with the

Re: Setting a property based on a command-line parameter

Here is how I decided to do it. If the command-line parameter "span" is supplied with the value "week", "start.date" is assigned the value of "weekly.start.date". Otherwise, it is assigned the value of "daily.start.date". -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Re: Setting a property based on a command-line parameter

is almost right, but it doesn't seem to have a means of testing the value of a property. Of course, I may be missing something. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Joe Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:56:39 -0700 (PDT) To:

RE: Setting a property based on a command-line parameter

I figured out I could do the date arithmetic in the task, so I' still looking for a way to set the value of the argument I'm sending to the SQL query. Is there some construct like setting the value of a variable in XSLT using the element? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Ori

Setting a property based on a command-line parameter

I'm using Ant to orchestrate a processing pipeline that begins with a query to an Oracle database and ends with a file containing a report in HTML format. One of the reports I have to produce comes in two flavors; daily and weekly. These are distinguished by the lower end of the date range the S

RE: Re: XSLT default parameters and Ant-supplied parameters conflict

Yes, that's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Antoine Levy-Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:54:35 -0400 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: XSLT default parameters and Ant-supplied

XSLT default parameters and Ant-supplied parameters conflict

How can I set up my build.xml file to pass Ant command-line parameters to an XSLT stylesheet without clobbering the default values defined in the stylesheet in case a command-line parameter is not supplied? I have an Ant task that performs an XSLT transformation. In the stylesheet I have define

RE: Re: Iterate over "filelist" with java task?

Thanks to all who replied. That's the answer I needed. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Grant Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 12 May 2006 21:01:35 -0400 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Iterate over "filelist" with java task? I gen

RE: Re: Iterate over "filelist" with java task?

Thank you for your reply, but it answered a question I didn't ask. I want to know what element can be the parent of a , not which elements a can contain. Let me list some examples: Is a a child of ? Is a a child of ? Is a the child of some other element? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: Re: Iterate over "filelist" with java task?

Thanks, I am using 1.6.5. I'v checked the docs but there's something missing. What is/are the parent element/s of the and the resulting task? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Grant Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:35:37 -04

Iterate over "filelist" with java task?

I have a project that requires me to do post-processing after an XSLT transformation on a list of files. I accomplish this (for a single file) by defining a "target" for each post-processing step. Each target contains a "java" task that performs the processing. Will it be necessary for me to cr

RE: Re: Ant won't run, help interpreting output needed

Thanks to you both. The answer was, indeed, in the environment. I copied the name of the %ANT_HOME% directory from the Windows explorer when I was in the bin subdirectory. I accidentally copied the trailing path separator "\". When the expression %ANT_HOME%\bin was expanded, it became C:\apa

Ant won't run, help interpreting output needed

I have used ant on several occasions in the past, installing in on three or four computers. I just installed it on my workstation at a new job this morning. I have a build.xml file in the directory from which I call ant, but with or without the build file, I get the following. Can someone tell m

RE: AW: What does it mean

"Antwort", meaning "answer", used by German speakers the way English speakers write "re:", which, oddly enough is an abbreviation of a Latin phrase "in re", generally translated as "in the matter of". -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Matthew Hughe

RE: Re: Access to OS environment variables?

Thanks. It helps to know where to look. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:13:06 -0800 (PST) To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Access to OS environment variables? --- [EMAIL PROTECT

Access to OS environment variables?

Am I just looking in the wrong place, or is there no way to read or capture the value of an operating system environment variable from within an ant build file. For example. I would like to use the fop task, but in order to do so I must create a property named "fop.dir" and enter the path to my

RE: Re: hello all :), trying to install ant

Here's my environment. I get the -version stuff just fine. Do you see any significant differences? OS: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] JAVA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_03 ANT_HOME: C:\apache-ant-1.6.5 PATH: C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA~1\COMM

RE: hello all :), trying to install ant

How does your CLASSPATH read? -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: gekkokid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:31:30 +0100 To: Subject: hello all :), trying to install ant Hi, I am trying to install Ant on a windows system, im h

RE: Re: taskdef-classpath fails to add jars to classpath

Thanks. I suppose I'll use a batch file to temporarily set CLASSPATH. It's ugly, but workable. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Antoine Levy-Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:24:45 +0200 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re:

taskdef-classpath fails to add jars to classpath

I have the following: - ant 1.6.2 - FOP 0.20.5 - WinXP Pro 2002 Service Pack 2 - FOP_HOME is defined as "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\fop-0.20.5" - CLASSPATH is defined as "C:/apache-ant-1.6.2\lib\ant.jar;C:/apache-ant-1.6.2\lib\optional.jar;C:/apache-a nt-1.6.2\lib\xercesImp