On Fri, Aug 17 2007 18:36:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > However, the locations of the images (as given by the fileref > attributes in the XML document) are not known until processing time. > So, if I want to run another command on these images before XSLT time, > I would need to first parse the XML document for the image locations > with something like XMLStarlet (or even just grep and sed), run the > commands, then finally run the XSLT processor. That would work, but > not as nicely as doing everything at XSLT processing time.
An XSLT transform to read XML and generate a batch file or shell script is probably a common occurrence: I do it quite often. You could also generate a subordinate Makefile with a target for each PNG (and an 'all' target that depends on all of them) so images are re-rasterised only when their SVG has changed (and the Makefile itself regenerated only when the XML source has changed). > Perhaps Ant might be a better build solution than make, however. I > will look into it. Ant's xslt/style target does make it easy to run transforms (and really pays off compared to shell scripts if you're trying to use Saxon with XML catalogs) but I would hesitate to recommend changing from Make to Ant just so Ant can run external programs, since both do that. Regards, Tony Graham. ====================================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.menteithconsulting.com Menteith Consulting Ltd Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Menteith Consulting -- Understanding how markup works ====================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
