Question

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

Answer 1

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!