I've attached a simple task which will take a XML file and apply a XSL
stylesheet/transformation to it and persist the results to disk e.g. <xslt
xml="MyData.xml" xsl="MyStylesheet.xsl" output="Output.html" />
--Neil
// NAnt - A .NET build tool
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// Neil Cowburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Xsl;
using System.Xml.XPath;
using NAnt.Core;
using NAnt.Core.Attributes;
namespace NAnt.Contrib.Tasks
{
/// <summary>
/// Performs XSL Transformations of XML data and outputs to a file on disk.
/// </summary>
/// <example>
/// <para>
/// Apply a XSL stylesheet to an XML data island and save the resulting HTML.
/// </para>
/// <code>
/// <![CDATA[
/// <xslt xml="MyData.xml" xsl="MyStylesheet.xsl" output="Output.html" />
/// ]]>
/// </code>
/// </example>
[TaskName("xslt")]
public class XslTransformTask : Task
{
private FileInfo _xmlFile;
private FileInfo _xslFile;
private FileInfo _outputFile;
/// <summary>
/// The XML file containing the data to be transformed.
/// </summary>
[TaskAttribute("xml", Required=true)]
[StringValidator(AllowEmpty=false)]
public FileInfo XmlFile
{
get { return _xmlFile; }
set { _xmlFile = value; }
}
/// <summary>
/// The XSL stylesheet or transformation to be applied to <see
cref="XmlFile"/>
/// </summary>
[TaskAttribute("xsl", Required=true)]
[StringValidator(AllowEmpty=false)]
public FileInfo XslFile
{
get { return _xslFile; }
set { _xslFile = value; }
}
/// <summary>
/// The file that the result of the transformed will be persisted to.
/// </summary>
[TaskAttribute("output", Required=true)]
[StringValidator(AllowEmpty=false)]
public FileInfo OutputFile
{
get { return _outputFile; }
set { _outputFile = value; }
}
protected override void ExecuteTask()
{
//Create a new XslTransform object.
XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();
//Load the stylesheet.
xslt.Load(_xslFile.FullName);
//Create a new XPathDocument and load the XML data to be
transformed.
XPathDocument mydata = new XPathDocument(_xmlFile.FullName);
//Create an XmlTextWriter which will output the result of the
transformation.
XmlWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(_outputFile.FullName, new
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding());
//Transform the data and write the output.
xslt.Transform(mydata,null,writer, null);
}
}
}
