Using the <xslt> task in ant, how do I get the output to generate to stdout?
My XSLT is generating multiple files through xsl:result-document and the normal output is just status information that I'd like to show up with normal Ant output. Ant seems to force me to supply a destdir= or an out= parameter.
Ant 1.8.2 with Saxon 9
Yes ant does this. However XSLT has the element which you can use to get output on the stdout :)
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:key name="types" match="a" use="text()"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<result>
<xsl:message terminate="no">I am a message from xslt!</xsl:message>
</result>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output :
build:
[xslt] Processing C:\Users\Stefanos\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\stackOverflow\stackOverflow\test.xml to C:\Users\Stefanos\Documents\Vis
ual Studio 2010\Projects\stackOverflow\stackOverflow\out.xml
[xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Users\Stefanos\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\stackOverflow\stackOverflow\test.xslt
[xslt] I am a message from xslt!
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
Hope it helps!
I recently had a similar scenario; an Ant script with an XSLT task where the style sheet transform generated multiple files using <xsl:result-document>. Since the Ant XSLT task requires the destdir attribute (unless the out attribute has been specified), I used known temp file(s) for the out destination and then implemented a “cleanup” task which deleted the temp file(s).
<target name="removeTemporaryFiles" description="remove temporary files">
<delete file="${workspace}/temp.xhtml"></delete>
…
</target>
