Re: [xslt] applying xsltproc to all files in a directory

[Rush Manbert <rush manbert com>]

Marie Sauvage - EBM WebSourcing wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I'm a little new in xslt transformation and uses xsltproc.
> I'm trying to apply an xslt transformation to all html files contained in a 
> directory and writting the ouput in another directory.
> Is it possible to do it ?
> xsltproc seems to don't take *.html, nor a directory in input. As I work with 
> ant, I tried with it to do a <for> on each file of the source directory and to 
> use the -o param on xsltproc to output files in the directory I want but without 
> success :
>
>     # xsltproc -o ./target/site/doc/
>     ./src/site/stylesheets/petals-doc-integrated.xsl ./src/site/doc/index.html
>     I/O error : Is a directory
>
> Do you know if this is possible with xsltproc ? Do you have an idea of how to do 
> it ?
>
> My problem is that I'm not able do get the file name with ant to pass it to 
> xsltproc, I only get the complete absolute path, so I can pass it in input file 
> but not in output.
>
> thanks in advance for your help,
> Marie.

Hi Marie,

Can you use basename to get the filename from the path?

man basename

- Rush