I'm opposed to this for one main reason: it forces me to study and learn
XSLT just do to something trivial like "foreach".
Brett Knights wrote:
>
> Consider this:
>
> <taskTransformer> <!-- as it's not just a for-each (name suggestions gratefully
>accepted)-->
>
> <elements row-elem-name="file"> <!-- this will become the xml source that will be
>passed to the stylesheet -->
> <fileSet .../>
> </elements>
>
> <taskStyle>
> <!-- everything in here is treated as a template that would normally be defined as
><xsl:template match="/" -->
> <xsl:for-each select="file">
> <touch file="{ant:full-path(.)}"/> <!-- anticipating some ant specific
>extensions. The example could use file="." -->
> </xsl:for-each>
> </taskStyle>
>
> <templates>
> ... <!-- optional section if further templates are required -->
> </templates>
>
> </taskTransformer>
>
> It's not a great deal different than each of us writing a scripted task when we want
>to run over a set of files except:
> - we can still use fileSets rather than relying on our scripting language's file
>system access routines.
> - any task could be used in a for-each mode without modification
> - what is produced is used as though the fully transformed version had appeared in
>the original build.xml
> - the full power of xslt is available should it be needed. (and is there to bite
>you ...)
>
> The task would assemble the included elements into a stylesheet that would import a
>standard stylesheet (therefore any xsl:
> directives in the build.xml would override the standards).
>
> One nice thing about the xslt route is that xslt is already fully documented. :-)
>
> There is enough work here that I won't just code it up, submit it, and see if it
>makes it. If this seems viable to others and has a
> chance of making it into official Ant I'll take on developing it though. (At which
>time I guess further discussions would go on the
> Ant-Developer's list)
>
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