Stefan Bodewig wrote, On 02/04/2003 17.34:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem is that AFAIK the xslt task needs a file, not an URL, and hence not a jar resource.
Errm, where does it need the file?
Sorry, I'm not clear. Code:
<xslt in="index.xml" out="index.html" style="style.xsl"/>
ATM IIUC I need style.xsl in the filesystem; I cannot directly use the one that's in the classpath directly.
If I had it in jars I could ship it automatically with the jar that has the task that generated index.xml, so I can easily do something like:
<xslt in="index.xml" out="index.html" style="resource:/a/style.xsl"/>
All tasks that resolve files IIUC call
public File resolveFile(File file, String filename)
in FileUtils.java [1]
Most of them implicitly by defining setXYZ(File) setters, yes.
Again IIUC and AFAIK it could be quite easy to extend this method to use a url to get the "File".
Return an URL? Receive an URL? I don't understand what you want.
Be able to specify a URL for every task that needs a file, and that thus uses the above fileutils method.
In this way I could do for example:
<ant antfile="http://url/to/buildfile/"/> <xslt in="index.xml" out="index.html" style="jar:/style.xsl"/>
etc
Yes, I could simply add a getStyleResource(String styleResource) to the task, but it would not make this change available to all tasks that use the above method.
Or maybe KISS and just add a getStyleResource(String styleResource). It solves the immediate issue and doesn't open other potential problems.
What do you think? I hope I was clearer this time =8-)
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