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Re: [docbook-apps] ANT script
- From: Oliver Horn <oliver dot horn at gmx dot net>
- To: Guy Worthington <guyw at multiline dot com dot au>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:04:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] ANT script
- References: <1248500935.1081749218678@clevercactus.468011796>
Hi!
Dave Pawson has documented how to use Ant 1.5 with DocBook [1].
Since Ant 1.6 it is possible to use directly the XML catalog resolver
library [2,3] from xml-commons.
However, using Ant for XSLT processing causes a lot of classloader
problems, in particular if you want to use a specific XSLT processor or
some extension libraries. Have a look at the Ant 1.6 xmlcatalog
documentation [3] and the FAQ entry "<style> or <junit> ignores my
<classpath>" [4]:
a) XML catalog resolver library must be on the (system) classpath
b) SAXON (or your XSLT processor of choice) must be on the same
classpath as the Ant TraX liasion (lib/ant-trax.jar)
c) Extension libraries for XSLT processing must be on the same classpath
as the XSLT processor
I think the easiest way is to put all those libraries on the system
classpath.
However, I use a slight different approach: I've set up a minimal Ant
1.6 environment (only ant.jar, ant-nodeps.jar, ant-launcher.jar and
resolver.jar on the system classpath) and load all other libraries
(ant-trax.jar, SAXON and various DocBook XSL extension jars) at run-time
by the Ant buildfile. This works fine, too.
Regards
Oliver
[1] http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html
[2] http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/commons/xml-commons-resolver-1.1.zip
[3] http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/xmlcatalog.html
[4] http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#delegating-classloader
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