Wendell Piez wrote:
Whatever I do, I want to keep processing completely controlled by the
configuration file.
Maybe someone on this list who knows Ant better than I do (it's on my
list!) can comment on how Ant (a Java build framework) could query a
configuration file to determine which stylesheet to call when a job is
invoked. A poor man's version of the same (though of course Ant is free)
could use a batch file to run a transform on your config file, to create
another batch file (in which the delegation could be managed), and then
execute it. In other words, these things can be done.
I haven't followed this thread too closely but in ant you can use
'input' to allow the user to enter data at the command line. For example:
<input
message="Enter an XSL file name:"
addproperty="xsl.name"/>
<xslt
in="source.xml"
out="result.html"
style="${xsl.name}"/>
best,
-Rob