Thanks for trying I think my problems were caused because the files I was running the style task on were in a different directory tree altogether to the main build file. I've since moved the files to a sub-directory and that's solved the problem.
cheers Jerome -----Original Message----- From: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 7 January 2003 6:58 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Basedir not working I have tried to reproduce your problem and I did not encounter it. I have done that with a build done with recent CVS sources. You might want to do ant -debug or ant -verbose to see more of what your build files are doing. Also display the basedir property with <echo> basedir=${basedir} </echo> to see if it is setup OK in your subprojects. project : --------- <project name="myproj" default="default"> <target name="default"> <ant dir="subtmp" antfile="subbuild.xml"> </ant> </target> </project> subproject : ------------ <project name="subtmp" default="subdef"> <target name="subdef"> <echo> basedir=${basedir} </echo> <style style="OrgChart.xsl" basedir="." destdir="." includes="OrgChart.xml"> </style> </target> </project> This works for me. If I put my main project under /tmp and the subproject in /tmp/subtmp, the <echo> task says : /tmp/subtmp which is what one wants, and the style task finds the files OrgChart.xsl and OrgChart.xml located under /tmp/subtmp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:42 AM Subject: Basedir not working > Hi, > I'm using xml files that make use of includes and I want to use the style > task to convert these xml documents to html. In order for the entities to > be found by ant I have to use absolute pathnames or really cumbersome > relative paths. > > My latest attempt is to have a build file for each root xml document in > the same folder (along with the xml files to be included). I then call > these build files as sub projects of my main build file and specify the > folder that contains the build file and the xml documents as the base > directory. The files don't get found when I run the build files as sub > projects but these same build files when run from the command prompt do > work... > > I've tried using xml catalogs to resolve the entities by specifing the > absolute path and no fatal errors occur when I did this but the entities > werenot included in translated document. (xml catalogs arn't what I want to > use anyway). I've also tried specifying the basedir attribute of the style > task and this doesn't work either. > > I've attached an example of code I'm using > > <target name="HTML" depends="init"> > <echo message="Converting xml documents into html"/> > <ant > antfile="htmlbuild.xml" > dir="${xml-files}documents"/> > <ant > antfile="htmlBuild.xml" > dir="${xml-files}project/requirements"/> > </target> > Does anyone know how to force ant to use look in the same directory as the > xml document of entities without having to specify absolute paths or paths > relative to the main build file? > > Cheers > Jerome Paul > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
