Need Saxon help!!!!

Nagaraj · May 15th, 2009, 12:10 AM

Hi all,

i'm using the xslt processor is "saxon9". How to automate to run the saxon in the command prompt due to avoid manually run... I need to convert myxml file name and outputxml file name in the same name. or convert *.xml input file.

example code:

Code:

java -jar saxon9.jar -t -s:*.xml -xsl:Sample.xsl -o:Output.xml

The above code is not working... Any one please help passing any xml file in to saxon....????

Thanks,
Nagaraj

mrame · May 15th, 2009, 01:31 AM

If you want to run a single xml file then use

java -jar saxon9.jar -t 1.xml 1.xsl > 1.html

else if you want to run a batch of files then create a batch file like 1.bat, in which add multiple lines like;
java -jar saxon9.jar -t 1.xml 1.xsl > 1.html
java -jar saxon9.jar -t 2.xml 1.xsl > 2.html

And then run that 1.bat in command line.

Nagaraj · May 15th, 2009, 03:22 AM

Hi rummy,

You suggest:

I give the list of files to be processing, that file names has to be given in the bat script. -- we avoid manual process???

Is there any other easy way to run all the xml files in that particular directory using saxon xslt processor.

Help me anybodies......

Thanks
Nagaraj

joefawcett · May 15th, 2009, 03:37 AM

You can re-write your transformation to use the collection function to bring in the XML files that need processing. This allows you to specify just files that have the .xml extension. There are examples of this in the documentation.

Alternatively use the Saxon API, either from Java or .NET.

Finally Kernow is a GUI over Saxon, It allows processing of entire folders but I'm not sure how far you can automate it.

mhkay · May 15th, 2009, 04:51 AM

Firstly, questions specific to a product are best asked on the help forum for that product. Saxon has a saxon-help forum and a saxon-help mailing both accessible via the SourceForge page for the saxon project.

There are several ways you could tackle this.

(a) The Saxon command line has an option to process all files in a directory. Just specify the directory name in the -s argument (and a directory for the output in -o).

(b) Learn how to use shell programming to locate all the files in a directory and process them iteratively

(c) Write a single XSLT transformation that accesses all the files in a directory using the collection() function

(d) Write a Java application as a shell around the XSLT transformation

(e) Use Kernow, which has the ability to process multiple source files with the same stylesheet.

Note that invoking Saxon repeatedly from the command line is very inefficient: not only does it recompile the stylesheet each time, it also incurs heavy overheads in initializing the Java VM. But this may not matter to you.