Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-25 Thread Ron Jeffries
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, at 11:30:55 AM, bill/wilandra wrote: > Have you looked at the Forrest project to see how they use ant. > http://forrest.apache.org/ > They generate a web site from XML input files and use ant to control the > process. I have not drilled down into their use of ant but it

RE: Exception in Style

2006-04-25 Thread bill/wilandra
: Ron Jeffries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:21 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Exception in Style On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, at 8:00:53 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: >> That would be handy ... in fact it would be handy if Ant just let me >> assert the end s

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-25 Thread Ron Jeffries
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, at 8:00:53 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: >> That would be handy ... in fact it would be handy if Ant just let me >> assert the end state and did the job. ;-> > I dont disagree, since that is effectively what the latest generation of > configuration management tools do. The

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Loughran
Ron Jeffries wrote: On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, at 5:53:51 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: What's known "out there" about how to test and regression test an Ant script? the purpose of a sequence of tasks is to move a build from one state "clean" to another "ready-to-ship" or "deployed". All you n

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-25 Thread Ron Jeffries
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, at 5:53:51 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: >> What's known "out there" about how to test and regression test an >> Ant script? > the purpose of a sequence of tasks is to move a build from one state > "clean" to another "ready-to-ship" or "deployed". All you need is > asser

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Loughran
Ron Jeffries wrote: On Monday, April 24, 2006, at 5:51:54 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: A better man would take the hour or two it would require to do all that. My learning, teaching, and proselytizing go in other directions, and I think that's where my energy needs to be put. Right now, I think I'

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-24 Thread Ron Jeffries
On Monday, April 24, 2006, at 5:51:54 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: >> A better man would take the hour or two it would require to do all >> that. My learning, teaching, and proselytizing go in other >> directions, and I think that's where my energy needs to be put. >> Right now, I think I'll stop whe

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-24 Thread Steve Loughran
Ron Jeffries wrote: On Sunday, April 23, 2006, at 1:12:07 PM, Steve Loughran wrote: yeah. thats the sun deriviative of Xalan. you need a real one :) There /is/ a jar named ant-xalan1.jar under ANT_HOME, and I had the impression that Ant uses its own shipped XSL transformer, though it is a ve

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-23 Thread Ron Jeffries
On Sunday, April 23, 2006, at 1:12:07 PM, Steve Loughran wrote: > yeah. thats the sun deriviative of Xalan. you need a real one :) >> >> There /is/ a jar named ant-xalan1.jar under ANT_HOME, and I had the >> impression that Ant uses its own shipped XSL transformer, though it >> is a version of X

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-23 Thread Steve Loughran
Ron Jeffries wrote: On Saturday, April 22, 2006, at 12:59:24 PM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: If you are using JDK 1.4 or JDK 1.5 and did not do anything special, you are using the xalan2 implementation which ships with the JDK. What group or individuals might be interested? The xalan-2 j

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-22 Thread Ron Jeffries
On Saturday, April 22, 2006, at 12:59:24 PM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: > If you are using JDK 1.4 or JDK 1.5 and did not do anything special, you > are using the xalan2 implementation which ships with the JDK. >> What group or individuals might be interested? >> > The xalan-2 j team : http://

Re: Exception in Style

2006-04-22 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Ron Jeffries wrote: > I have an XSL file that always creates a null pointer exception in > transforming. There's a two-line change to make it work, which might > help someone find the bug if interested. I assume it's a bug in > whatever XSL processor Ant is using, not in Ant itself. > > If you a

Exception in Style

2006-04-22 Thread Ron Jeffries
I have an XSL file that always creates a null pointer exception in transforming. There's a two-line change to make it work, which might help someone find the bug if interested. I assume it's a bug in whatever XSL processor Ant is using, not in Ant itself. What group or individuals might be interes