Arnold, I haven't had time to look at your task. I'm not sure we can accept LGPL code into the Ant repository. Peter, any insight? Conor > -----Original Message----- > From: Arnold deVos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2001 5:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ANN: Styler task extended to regular fragmentations, custom > types. > > > Hi, > > this is to followup an earlier announcement of an XML/XSLT processing task > for Ant. I've extended the styler task to allow custom parsers, > transformers and serializers. Based on that, I've added a transformer for > "regular fragmentations" (see http://simonstl.com/projects/fragment/ ). > > I expect the ability to split up element content to be rather useful in > pipelines with XSLT transformations. Combined with the HTML parser it > should make the styler task ideal for "screen scraping". > > One of our applications is to convert template.HTML->(styler > pipeline)->skin.XSLT and then data.XML+skin.XSLT->(styler > pipeline)->view.HTML > > The styler task makes useful combinations of XSLT transformations easy to > specify in an Ant build file. Like the built-in task style, > styler can apply > a single transformation to a set of XML files. But it can also: > > * handle multiple transformations, in parallel or pipelined. > * enable transformations that split or merge files > * process non-XML files, especially HTML (based on JTidy) > * apply non-XSLT transformation, especially "regular fragmentations" > * use any custom XMLReader or XMLFilter class to handle new file > formats and > transformation techniques. > > Download under LGPL at http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/ > > -- > Arnold deVos > Langdale Consultants > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
