org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs
Interface XSLTLiaison

All Known Subinterfaces:

XSLTLiaison2

All Known Implementing Classes:

TraXLiaison, XalanLiaison, XslpLiaison

public interface XSLTLiaison

Proxy interface for XSLT processors.

Since:

Ant 1.1

See Also:

XSLTProcess

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

FILE_PROTOCOL_PREFIX the file protocol prefix for systemid.

Method Summary

void	addParam(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String expression) Add a parameter to be set during the XSL transformation.
void	setStylesheet(java.io.File stylesheet) set the stylesheet to use for the transformation.
void	transform(java.io.File infile, java.io.File outfile) Perform the transformation of a file into another.

Field Detail

FILE_PROTOCOL_PREFIX

public static final java.lang.String FILE_PROTOCOL_PREFIX

the file protocol prefix for systemid. This file protocol must be appended to an absolute path. Typically: FILE_PROTOCOL_PREFIX + file.getAbsolutePath() Note that on Windows, an extra '/' must be appended to the protocol prefix so that there is always 3 consecutive slashes.

Since:

Ant 1.4

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

setStylesheet

public void setStylesheet(java.io.File stylesheet)
                   throws java.lang.Exception

set the stylesheet to use for the transformation.

Parameters:

stylesheet - the stylesheet to be used for transformation.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - thrown if any problems happens.

Since:

Ant 1.4

addParam

public void addParam(java.lang.String name,
                     java.lang.String expression)
              throws java.lang.Exception

Add a parameter to be set during the XSL transformation.

Parameters:

name - the parameter name.

expression - the parameter value as an expression string.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - thrown if any problems happens.

Since:

Ant 1.3

transform

public void transform(java.io.File infile,
                      java.io.File outfile)
               throws java.lang.Exception

Perform the transformation of a file into another.

Parameters:

infile - the input file, probably an XML one. :-)

outfile - the output file resulting from the transformation

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - thrown if any problems happens.

Since:

Ant 1.4

See Also:

setStylesheet(File)