Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Ant "Style" task does not work with docbook xsl, why?

[Steffen Maier <Steffen.Maier@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de>]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Alexander Schatten wrote:
> I use ant build files for automatic publishing tasks which is _very_ useful.
>
> ant has a built-in "style" task that invoces xalan to make xsl
> transformations. it works with all xsl stylesheets I have written, but
> does not work with N. Walshs docbook (html) stylesheets. (with no error
> btw: the task is simply ignored).

Could you please give us more information e.g. the respective parts of
your build.xml and maybe ant's verbose/debug output?

The fact that ant ignored your task sounds like all dependencies were
allready fulfilled? I mean either out="..." was newer than in="..." or the
respective attribute values for multiple in/out-files (chunking) told ant
that everything is allready done. Using website-xsl the latter wouldn't
work with my setup (of course, because ant doesn't know anything about
(auto)layout.xml...). Haven't tried "normal" docbook chunking yet.

I had problems using ant+xalan+dbxsl giving syntax errors in the
stylesheets (might just have been an old xalan version) but I didn't mind
because I wanted to use ant+saxon+crimson+resolver+dbxsl anyways. There
are some annoying issues though, concerning ant's style task and classpath
as well as system properties (needed to configure JAXP) [ant
mailinglists]. That's why I stick with the java task using
saxon-extensions and transforming my autolayout.xml with website-xsl. If
someone out there had more success using style task with website I would
be happy to hear about.

Bye,
Steffen.

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