Reading the question, I thought about
<xslt>
<param file="xsl-params.properties"/>
</xslt>
and all properties defined there would be passed to the stylesheet.
Jan
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>Von: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Juli 2006 05:55
>An: Ant Users List
>Betreff: Re: XSLT default parameters and Ant-supplied
>parameters conflict
>
>
>Hi,
>
>this line
>
> <param name="weekly-end-date" expression="${weekly.end.date}"/>
>
>
>means that ant will pass to the stylesheet literally
>${weekly.end.date} if weekly.end.date is not set.
>
>what you would need and which does not exist would be
>something looking like that :
>
> <param name="weekly-end-date"
>expression="${weekly.end.date}" if="weekly.end.date"/>
>
>meaning pass the weekly-end-date parameter to XSL if the
>property weekly.end.date is set.
>
>Miracle, this construct exists, and even better in Ant 1.6.5.
>
>Regards,
>
>Antoine
>
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> How can I set up my build.xml file to pass Ant command-line
>parameters to an XSLT stylesheet without clobbering the
>default values defined in the stylesheet in case a
>command-line parameter is not supplied?
>>
>> I have an Ant task that performs an XSLT transformation. In
>the stylesheet I have defined four parameters with default
>values. From time to time it may be necessary to provide
>alternate values for one or more of these parameters, so I
>have set up my build.xml file like this (relevant section only).
>>
>>
>> <project name="hiring-reports" default="gen-report" basedir="."
>> xmlns:ora="antlib:net.sf.incanto">
>>
>> <property name="sql.dir" value="./plsql" />
>> <property name="xml.dir" value="./xml" />
>> <property name="xslt.dir" value="./xslt" />
>> <property name="rpts.dir" value="./rpts" />
>> <property name="weekly.start.date" value="" />
>> <property name="weekly.end.date" value="" />
>> <property name="cumulative.start.date" value="" />
>> <property name="cumulative.end.date" value="" />
>>
>>
>> <task>
>> <style
>> style="${xslt.dir}/@{stylesheet}"
>> in = "${xml.dir}/@{infile}"
>> out="${rpts.dir}/@{outfile}" processor="trax">
>>
>> <param name="weekly-end-date" expression="${weekly.end.date}"/>
>> <param name="weekly-start-date"
>expression="${weekly.start.date}"/>
>> <param name="cumulative-end-date"
>expression="${cumulative.end.date}"/>
>> <param name="cumulative-start-date"
>expression="${cumulative.start.date}"/>
>> </style>
>> </task>
>>
>>
>> When I supply command-line parameter name and value to Ant
>for any of these <param> elements, the values are passed
>through to the stylesheet.
>>
>> On the other hand, if I fail to provide a command-line
>parameter name and value, Ant "seems" to supply an empty
>string as the value to the stylesheet parameter. My stylesheet
>then replaces the default value defined there with the empty
>string, causing my transformation to fail.
>>
>
>
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