Problems: Texen

[Saimon Moore <sa...@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi all,

I've been trying to test Texen and have succesfully compiled a very Basic 
Texen task. Build.xml and build.properties and the templates are also set up 
properly I think as when ant executes init it goes through the task, prints 
outs the comments, executes the Texen task (I have code to verify that it's 
being executed) succesfully.

However, no files are generated because velocity can't seem to find the 
Generator object. I was looking around in TexenTask.java and I couldn't see 
where $generator is being added to the context. There's something about 
$generator explicitly not being added to the context in the comment above the 
populateInitialContext() method

Actually while my task is running I loop through all the keys in the context 
and the only one there is the one I put in it. Namely a JDOM document.

Any ideas about, where $generator is. I based my code on the Torque 
TexenTasks and there's no mention in there of adding Generator to the context.

>From Velocity Log:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : 
template = Control.vm [line 6,column 4] : $outputFile is not a valid 
reference.

org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : 
template = Control.vm [line 7,column 4] : 
$generator.parse("ejb/planet.vm",$outputFile,"planet",$planet) is not a valid 
reference.

>From generated report:
//I don't know why velocity is complaining about $outputFile not being a 
valid reference becuase it seems to be recognizing it ok here

$outputFile = "a.java" 
$generator.parse("planet.vm",$outputFile,"planet",$planet)
$outputFile = "b.java"
$generator.parse("planet.vm",$outputFile,"planet",$planet)
$outputFile = "c.java"
$generator.parse("planet.vm",$outputFile,"planet",$planet)

Thanks in advance...

P.S. What would be preferable to use if you wanted text generation from an 
xml file ? Anakia or Texen? What about using Texen and adding a JDOM document 
parsed via SAXBuilder? Which is what I'm doing....

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