Any interest in an XSLT task?

[William McKenzie <ws...@cartewright.com>]

Seems like it would have good, generic usefulness and be pretty easy to
implement using existing apache xml code.  I haven't been following the
group for too long, so forgive me if this is old hat.  I'm personally
interested in using the xslt to generate different EJB deployment
descriptors for various vendors, based on a single xml source.

~Bill

Re: Any interest in an XSLT task?

[Bill Brooks <wb...@lug.ee.calpoly.edu>]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, William McKenzie wrote:

> Seems like it would have good, generic usefulness and be pretty easy to
> implement using existing apache xml code.  I haven't been following the
> group for too long, so forgive me if this is old hat.

It already exists, take a look at the docs for the <style> task. I'm
already using it heavily in my own projects for taking source documents in
XML format (the DocBook DTD) and producing .pdf files from them using
XSL:FO.

Since we're on the subject, though, I can't believe that anyone hasn't yet
written a <validate> task so that one can validate a build.xml file, a
web.xml file, or similar before handing it over to some other tool or
server that will choke if there are syntax problems in the file. 

Or am I wrong? I'll be happy to write one for Ant 1.3 if it seems like a
useful feature. 

Bill