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Re: Xalan and path problem


Thomas Porschberg wrote:
> we use Xalan on our UNIX/LINUX machines and I want now to the same on
> Cygwin. I installed Xerces+Xalan(the windows binaries).
>
> In our UNIX scripts the call to Xalan is:
>
> Xalan -o $RESULTFILE $XMLFILE $XSLFILE
>
> where $RESULTFILE, $XMLFILE and $XSLFILE are specified as
> UNIX-paths.
>
> That doesn't work under Cygwin I had to write:
>
> Xalan -o `cygpath -w $RESULTFILE` ...
>
> Of course I could now write
> if $cywin ; then
>  Xalan -o `cygpath -w $RESULTFILE` ...
> else
>  Xalan -o $RESULTFILE $XMLFILE $XSLFILE
> fi
>
> but I don't want change the script.
>
> Is there another way to solve the problem ?

You could create a script that cygpath-ifies the parameters and passes them to 
a call to the actual Xalan executable, name that script "Xalan" and put it 
somewhere into the PATH where it gets called instead of the actual Xalan 
binary.

Regards
  mks

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