Chionographis is an Apache Ant task for cascading XML transformation. This transformation is done with following three primitive operations applied arbitrary number of times in arbitrary order:

• XML transformation with XSLT stylesheet,
• joining of multiple XML documents into one,
• and snipping fragments from XML documents.

Running Chionographis requires JRE installed, of version 1.8 or later. And it also requires Apache Ant installed, of version 1.8.0 or later.

To build Chionographis, you need JDK instead of JRE. Optionally, to build User's Guide, you need AsciiDoc installed too.

To build Chionographis, with ant command in your PATH, at the top directory simply run

$ ant

and JAR files will be generated in build directory.

If you want API documents, similarly run

$ ant api-docs

and you will get API documents in build/doc/api directory.

Here is an example of a Ant target which uses Chionographis:

<target name="flora-genera">
  <chionographis srcdir="flora" includes="*.xml">
    <all root="flora">
      <transform style="flora/to-genera.xsl">
        <snip select="/genera/genus">
          <output destdir="flora-genera" refer="/genus/@name">
            <globmapper from="*" to="*.xml"/>
          </output>
        </snip>
      </transform>
    </all>
  </chionographis>
</target>

This target reads all .xml files in flora directory and collects all of them into a new document <flora>...</flora>, then transforms it with XSLT stylesheet flora/to-genera.xsl, then finds all document fragments which matches XPath /genera/genus, and then finally writes all fragments into separated files in directory flora-genera as XXX.xml, where XXX is the name attribute of the document element of each document fragment.

For details, please consult the Users Guide.

These codes are licensed under CC0.