xsl with replace function can't be compiled

[forummarcel]

Hello Everyone

I am creating an ant-script where i execute an xsl-statement that uses the following command (which is apparently not available in xslt1.0):

<xsl:value-of select="replace(., 'old', 'current')

Consequence: my ant script returns a fatal error, and says the stylesheet couldn't be compiled.

Is there a setting i am missing? Or is there an equivalent replace function which i could use for my purpose?

Thanks in adavance for any advise.
marcel

[adrian]

Hi,

If you don't need to stick with XSL 1.0, you could run the transformation with Saxon9 (XSL 2.0 engine) from ANT:
Saxon - Running Saxon XSLT Transformations from Ant
There's also a discussion thread on stackoverflow that mentions a bug in ANT 1.8.1 that may require a workaround for this:
stackoverflow - How to execute XSLT 2.0 with ant?

Regards,
Adrian

[forummarcel]

hi adrian

i use the regular oxygen-ant setup, and i don't have ant installed seperately. could it be that i can't make this issue work because of that?

what i would prefer would be a xslt replacement function that replaces some characters with others within strings, that also works for xslt1.0?

I am not familiar with setting up java classes and parameters, sorry.

marcel

[adrian]

Hi,

In that case, you could use this template:
stackoverflow - How do I do a str:replace in XSLT/XPATH 1.0?
Note that it's not a function, there are no user defined functions in vanilla XSL 1.0, you need EXSLT for that.

Regards,
Adrian

[forummarcel]

thanks adrian for your reply, this helped, and my script is running properly now in xslt 1.0.

now i run into another problem: because i am testing my ant-script outside of the dita-ot-environment i cannot run even simple test-scripts from the oxygen-ant-scenario.

i already removed everything related to dita but still don't get a good result.

what parameters do i have to set that i can execute the ant-scenario independantly of the dita toolkit? Example:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project name="test-ant" basedir=".">

 <description>test-ant</description>

 

 <target name="replace_string">

  <xslt in="input.ditamap" out="output.ditamap" style="filter_ditamap.xsl">

  </xslt>

 </target>

 

</project>

[forummarcel]

just updating: in the meantime i am surcompassing the problem over an xslt-scenario. This one works fine. What i am not understanding, why the same is not working over an ant-scenario. the basic function is a simple string-replace-function (xslt1.0) similar to the one Adrian suggested to me. So thats the code which works fine in xslt-scenario, and doesn't work in ant-scenario (here, the hrefs remain all empty):

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    <xsl:template match="@href">

        <xsl:attribute name="href">

            <xsl:choose>

                <xsl:when test="contains(. ,'criteria')">

                    <xsl:attribute name="href">   

                            <xsl:call-template name="string-replace">

                                <xsl:with-param name="string" select="." />

                                <xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'fragment1'" />

                                <xsl:with-param name="with" select="'fragment1_new'" />

                            </xsl:call-template>

  

                            <xsl:call-template name="string-replace">

                                <xsl:with-param name="string" select="." />

                                <xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'fragment2'" />

                                <xsl:with-param name="with" select="'fragment2_new'" />

                            </xsl:call-template>       

                    </xsl:attribute>      

                </xsl:when> 

            </xsl:choose>

            

            <xsl:choose>

                <xsl:when test="not(contains(. ,'criteria'))">

                    <xsl:attribute name="href">

                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>                        

                    </xsl:attribute>

                </xsl:when>

            </xsl:choose>

        </xsl:attribute>

    </xsl:template>