Re: [Xmltask-users] Using replace on multiple files?

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Not a problem. Thx for the feedback.

On 29/5/09 19:07, Lacoste, Dana (TSG Software San Diego) wrote:
>
> You mean:
>
> <xmltask source="*.xml" todir="."> ?
>
> Yes, this works fine.
>
> ARGH, so does source="**/file.xml" (now, anyways)
>
> Why didn't this work yesterday????
>
> so, to be clear, this works now :
>
> <*xmltask* *todir*=".">
>
> <*fileset* *dir*=".">
>
> <*include* *name*="**/file.xml" />
>
> <*/fileset*>
>
> <*replace* *path*="/path/to/text()" *withText*="DanaTest"/>
>
> <*/xmltask*>
>
> I'm sorry for asking questions about something that works.  I must've 
> had a typo somewhere or something!
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Dana Lacoste
>
> *From:* Brian Agnew [mailto:br...@oo...]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 29, 2009 10:40 AM
> *To:* Lacoste, Dana (TSG Software San Diego)
> *Cc:* xml...@li...
> *Subject:* Re: [Xmltask-users] Using replace on multiple files?
>
> So what happens if you do the suggested toDir, but set the dir to the 
> same directory that you're reading from. I suspect this should work.
>
> On 29/5/09 18:22, Lacoste, Dana (TSG Software San Diego) wrote:
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> Well, no: I didn't explain myself clearly J
>
> I want to update several XML files _/in place/_ : I don't want an 
> "output" directory, because then I'll have to find a way to put the 
> files back in their original location J
>
> so, if I do source=file.xml and dest=file.xml it overwrites the 
> original file with the change.
>
> If I do source=**/file.xml without a dest= it doesn't actually do 
> anything.
>
> If I do source=**/file.xml and dest=**/file.xml it doesn't do anything 
> (which makes sense: how can you have multiple outputs? J )
>
> If I use <fileset> with a wildcard <include name="**/file.xml"> then 
> it doesn't do anything either (without the dest being set to a file, 
> it seems to use buffers exclusively)
>
> I've guessed that maybe I could somehow do a <fileset> to obtain the 
> list and then iterate over that list with xmltask, but that seems 
> backwards (and I can't figure out how to make that work cleanly)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dana Lacoste
>
> *From:* Brian Agnew [mailto:br...@oo...]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 29, 2009 2:43 AM
> *To:* Lacoste, Dana (TSG Software San Diego)
> *Cc:* xml...@li... 
> <mailto:xml...@li...>
> *Subject:* Re: [Xmltask-users] Using replace on multiple files?
>
> From the manual:
>
> <xmltask todir="output">
> <fileset dir=".">
> <includes name="*.xml"/>
>   .....
>
> reads from the XML files in the current dir and writes to the same 
> filenames in the output dir.
>
> So you need to identify the directory to write to, and it'll process 
> each file and write the results to the specified directory.
>
> Brian
>
> On 29/5/09 02:19, Lacoste, Dana (TSG Software San Diego) wrote:
>
> So I can do this:
>
> <xmltask source=file1.txt dest=file1.txt>
>
> with a <replace> task and update that file's content.
>
> Is there a way I can do this with multiple files?
>
> i.e. when I set "source" to **/*.xml (for example) it doesn't actually 
> change anything if I don't set dest as well (I'm guessing it's setting 
> output to a buffer, which I'm not reading so I don't see any change to 
> the files)
>
> (this is true if I do it as a source= or as a <fileset><include>)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Dana Lacoste
>
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