It doesn't appear that there's an easy way to convert file separators from '\' to '/' within an Ant apply task. Am I wrong about that?
The following invokes an executable compiled under Cygwin on Windows XP. Java knows I'm a Windows user and always returns a backslash in the <sourcefile> and <targetfile> parameters which isn't OK with Cygwin which expects unix format forward slashes. The obvious thing is to convert the slashes before calling my executable ... simple, right? If so, I'm having trouble saying how. The simplest fix would be to tell Ant and/or Java that file.separator is actually '/' prior to invocation. Perhaps I'm being dense here, but I don't seem to be able to make this work. I've set 'ANT_OPS=-Dfile.separator=/' to no effect. Perhaps I'm doing something incorrectly? The other easy solution would be to supply throw in a <pathconvert> but far as I can tell that isn't allowed inside an <apply>. A <mapper> allows me to fudge the format to some extent but it isn't flexible enough. The 'glob' type only allows a single '*' for myriad of different path configuration, so that isn't good enough. The 'regexp' type is another possibility but unless I'm missing something Ant's regex implementation doesn't offer a means to globally replace every '\' with '/'. Suggestions anyone? <target name="translate_xml" depends="init, configure"> <echo message="translate_xml"/> <apply executable="${cygwin.path}/bin/bash.exe" dir="${src.dir}" relative="true" dest="${src.dir}" vmlauncher="true"> <arg value="-c"/> <!-- quote insures that ':' in path isn't misinterpeted by cygwin bash'--> <arg value=""${cygwin.path}/usr/local/bin/xsltproc"/> <arg value="-o"/> <targetfile/> <arg value="xml/stylesheets/copyxml.xsl"/> <srcfile/> <!-- end quote--> <arg value="""/> <fileset dir="${src.dir}" id="templates.id"> <include name="xml/templates/**/*.xml"/> </fileset> <mapper type="glob" from="xml\templates\*.xml" to="xmlgen/translations/*.xml"/> </apply> </target> For the record, I also tried this using 'foreach' from the contrib. Once again path manipulations are hampered by the fact that <pathconvert> is not allowed. I'd prefer to stick with <apply> if there's any way to do it, but other solutions that process multiple files in varying formats ... and allow path conversion ... are appreciated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>