How to Automate Processing
A batch file (a text file saved with the file extension .bat) contains a sequence of commands that will be executed from the command line. When the batch file is executed, each command in the batch file will be executed in turn, starting with the first and progressing through the sequence. A batch file is therefore useful in the following situations:
•Executing a series of commands automatically (see below).
•Creating a chain of processing commands, where a command requires input produced by a preceding command. (For example, an XML file produced as output of one transformation is used as the input of a subsequent transformation.)
•Scheduling a sequence of tasks to be executed at a particular time.
Batch file with sequence of commands
A sequence of commands to be executed is entered as follows:
@ECHO OFF
CLS
StyleVision TestEN.sps -outxslt=HTML-EN.xslt
StyleVision TestDE.sps -outxslt=HTML-DE.xslt
StyleVision TestES.sps -outxslt=HTML-ES.xslt
When the batch file is processed, the commands are executed and the files generated. The batch file above uses StyleVision to generate three XSLT files from an SPS file.
Batch processing to PDF
A quick and simple way to generate PDF by using RaptorXML for the first-step XSLT transformation and FOP for the second-step FO processing would be to write a batch file that combines the two commands. (For the sake of simplicity, assume that the calls to RaptorXML and FOP correctly locate the executables.)
raptorxml xslt --input=Test.xml --output=Test.fo Test.xslt
fop -fo test.fo -pdf test.pdf
The first command calls RaptorXML and produces test.fo as output. The second command passes test.fo to the FOP processor, which generates the PDF file test.pdf. For more information about RaptorXML, see Using RaptorXML.