If you're ok with including an extra couple of build files you can have a look at
http://codepulsive.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/ant-edit-property-values.html and http://codepulsive.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/ant-process-elements-in-list.html The relevant build files are http://pbw.id.au/src/ant/editstring.xml and http://pbw.id.au/src/ant/listutils.xml All standard ant, no compiled components. Peter West "Ask and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." On 02/08/2013, at 6:35 AM, Graydon Saunders <graydon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm using ant 1.9.2 via a Fedora rawhide package on Linux. > > I have bunch of SGML files (in complex, arbitrary directory structures > which I must preserve) that have different SGML DTDs; these need to be > normalized to XML. > > One of the pieces of information required by the program that does the > normalization is the name of the SGML DTD. > > That's in the SGML -- and thus effectively text, it can't be treated as raw > XML -- source file as a processing instruction, <?dtd name="oneOfMany"> -- > and I'm not seeing how I should get that information out of there and make > it available to the apply task. > > As a general structure > > <target depends="prepSGML" > description="normalize SGML input to XML (but not the target XML!)" > name="normalize"> > <mkdir dir="${NORMALIZED}"/> > <antcall target="copy.only.dir"> > <param name="dest.dir" value="SX"/> > <param name="source.dir" value="SPrep"/> > </antcall> > <mapper from="*" id="normOut" to="SX/*" type="glob"/> > <apply executable="osx" failonerror="true" logerror="true"> > <env file="${srcfile}" /> > <fileset casesensitive="no" dir="${SPREP}" id="prepSGML"> > <include name="**/*.dat"/> > </fileset> > <mapper refid="normOut"/> > <arg value="--xml-output-option=comment"/> > <arg value="--catalog=${ENTITIES}/catalog"/> > <arg value="${SGML_DTD}/prep.dtd"/> > <srcfile/> > <redirector> > <outputmapper refid="normOut"/> > </redirector> > </apply> > </target> > > works. > > The problem is > <arg value="${SGML_DTD}/prep.dtd"/> > > where I've hard-coded the dtd name. That obviously won't work in the > general case, even if it convinces me the target works by correctly > normalizing a single sample file. (I've used ant before, but it's been > awhile.) > > I can't shake the sense that this ought to be obvious if I were only > looking at the problem in a suitably ant-like way, but I'm not having much > luck; I've been over the apply documentation and various other things > repeatedly, trying to figure out how to set a property based on individual > files in a fileset, and having no luck. Which makes me think that's > probably the wrong approach. > > Anyone care to suggest how to approach this? I'd like to stick to core ant > if at all possible. > > Thanks! > Graydon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
