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Thomas Porschberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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 ?

Yeah - get Xalan to understand unix paths. No Windows app will understand
full cygwin paths, although most do understand the / as a path separator.
Maybe you can create a cygwin version Xalan (whatever that is).

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