Ant task to transform all files in a folder

[martindholmes]

I'm having trouble getting a fairly simple Ant task to work. I'm trying to run an XSLT transformation on all the files in a folder and output the results to another folder. This is what the relevant bit of the build file looks like at the moment:

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  <target name="poemsToHTML">

    <echo>Create output for all poems in the anthology folder.</echo>

    <xslt force="true" style="${pd}/xsl/poem.xsl" includes="${pd}/anthology" basedir="${pd}/xsl" destdir="${pd}/html" extension=".html" scanincludeddirectories="true">     

      <factory name="net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl"/>

      <classpath location="${oxygenlib}/saxon9ee.jar"/>

    </xslt>

  </target> 

I get this output in the console, but nothing is created:

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poemsToHTML:

     [echo]Create output for all poems in the anthology folder.

     [xslt] Transforming into /media/Data/mholmes/Documents/english/VictorianPoetryNetwork/svnrepo/html

According to how I read the Ant docs, this should scan the included directory (anthology) and process all of the files in it.

Can anyone see what I'm missing?

[martindholmes]

Answering my own question, in case it helps someone else. I had to use a fileset:

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    <fileset id="anthologyFiles" dir="${pd}/anthology" includes="*.xml"></fileset>

    

    <xslt force="true" style="${pd}/xsl/poem.xsl" destdir="${pd}/html" extension=".html" useImplicitFileset="false">

      <fileset refid="anthologyFiles"/>

      <factory name="net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl"/>

      <classpath location="${oxygenlib}/saxon9ee.jar"/>

    </xslt>

[Radu]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for updating the post with a solution.

Regards,
Radu