Jay, For my ebook production flow, I use an ant script that fetches files from a web server, unzips them, moves them a around and uses them to process the Docbook file. It is not trivial but it's also not too complicated,
Carlos Sent from my iPad > On Jan 15, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Jay Bryant <nikkno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have used Ant for business automation in the past. The > document-production team needed to get the latest versions of all their > files, run multiple transforms on each file, and then produce PDF, help > files, and HTML. So I wrote an Ant file that had several targets, depending > on which output they wanted. It had some convenience tasks, too. Some of > those tasks involved creating zip files, so I am sure you can make > unzipping work, too. > > Jay Bryant >> On Jan 15, 2014 7:37 AM, "Mark Lybarger" <mlybar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> i'm putting together a simple business "flow" process. some zip files are >> pulled from a vendor. i need a process to do the following, archive the >> input, unzip the zip files, and execute some transformation on some of the >> data. >> >> currently, it's on a windows server, but we have linux servers in our >> environment too. i was thinking of using an ant script to handle/drive >> most of this execution. as ant is primarily using for building (java >> appliations), does anyone see issues with using ant to drive this file >> processing and manipulation? >> >> thoughts/ideas are very welcome! >> >> thanks, >> -mark- >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
