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From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: XSLTProcessor & using xsl file from jar file
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:25:18 +1100
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:56, Stephane Bailliez wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Barry Kaplan [mailto:inthepresent@home.com]
>
> [...]
>
> > c:\somewhere\jar:file:\c:\somewhere\myjar.jar!\com\abwg\tools\
> > ant\ConvertToJ
> > builder.xsl
> >
> > So, what does one generally do in the ant world?
> > a) Forget about using <style> and roll my own xslt code?
> > b) Refactor XSLProcessor to accept a File argument for the
> > xsl parameter (to
> > be consistent
> >    with all its other file-like arguments)?
> > c) Refactor Project.resolveFile() to handle URLs correctly?
> > d) Something else?
>
> <style> tasks support only 'files', not url.
>
> I have had enough problems with parsers and processors when I did this for
> Ant 1.4.x.
> Roughly, xerces was failing when passing a File object, crimson was failing
> with file:// (as expected, depending in the platform), xalan was being very
> nice in some places and not in others and JAXP was on top of this to break
> things with systemids. See archives in ant-dev, ant-user, and xalan-dev for
> more info.
>
> When you start to have so much troubles with different versions, you have
> either 2 choices: suicide or keep it simple and straight.
>
> There has been a systemid cleaning in Xalan 2.2.x to be consistent, so this
> should be better now.
>
> > If either b) or c), what will it take to get the changes
> > rolled back into ant proper?
>
> mm.. a patch ? :-)

I would like to have an extra inurl="..." attribute or something rather than 
overloading the current one. Or can we overload without too much ugliness?

-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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