Yes, that's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks.
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From: Antoine Levy-Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:54:35 -0400
To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
Subject: Re: XSLT default parameters and Ant-supplied parameters conflict
Hi,
this line
<param name="weekly-end-date" expression="${weekly.end.date}"/>
means that ant will pass to the stylesheet literally ${weekly.end.date}
if weekly.end.date is not set.
what you would need and which does not exist would be something looking
like that :
<param name="weekly-end-date" expression="${weekly.end.date}"
if="weekly.end.date"/>
meaning pass the weekly-end-date parameter to XSL if the property
weekly.end.date is set.
Miracle, this construct exists, and even better in Ant 1.6.5.
Regards,
Antoine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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 defined four parameters with default values. From time to time it may be
> necessary to provide alternate values for one or more of these parameters, so
> I have set up my build.xml file like this (relevant section only).
>
>
> <project name="hiring-reports" default="gen-report" basedir="."
> xmlns:ora="antlib:net.sf.incanto">
>
> <property name="sql.dir" value="./plsql" />
> <property name="xml.dir" value="./xml" />
> <property name="xslt.dir" value="./xslt" />
> <property name="rpts.dir" value="./rpts" />
> <property name="weekly.start.date" value="" />
> <property name="weekly.end.date" value="" />
> <property name="cumulative.start.date" value="" />
> <property name="cumulative.end.date" value="" />
>
>
> <task>
> <style
> style="${xslt.dir}/@{stylesheet}"
> in = "${xml.dir}/@{infile}"
> out="${rpts.dir}/@{outfile}" processor="trax">
>
> <param name="weekly-end-date" expression="${weekly.end.date}"/>
> <param name="weekly-start-date" expression="${weekly.start.date}"/>
> <param name="cumulative-end-date" expression="${cumulative.end.date}"/>
> <param name="cumulative-start-date"
> expression="${cumulative.start.date}"/>
> </style>
> </task>
>
>
> When I supply command-line parameter name and value to Ant for any of these
> <param> elements, the values are passed through to the stylesheet.
>
> On the other hand, if I fail to provide a command-line parameter name and
> value, Ant "seems" to supply an empty string as the value to the stylesheet
> parameter. My stylesheet then replaces the default value defined there with
> the empty string, causing my transformation to fail.
>
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