I might have found a bug in Ruby's XSLT bindings:
require 'rubygems' require 'rake' require 'xml/xslt' task :default => :some @mybuild = 'dkjfh' task :some do publish('blah') publish('blah') end def publish(ok) xslt = XML::XSLT.new() xslt.xml = 'ok ' xslt.xsl = 'sheet.xsl' hi = { 'dabuild' => @mybuild } new = { 'section' => 'oj', 'subsection' => 'milk' } new.merge!(hi) puts new xslt.parameters = new html = xslt.serve puts html end
/var/www/dev/ruby-experiments/xslt_prob$ rake (in /var/www/dev/ruby-experiments/xslt_prob) sectionojsubsectionmilkdabuilddkjfh dkjfh sectionojsubsectionmilkdabuilddkjfh' Invalid expression runtime error Evaluating user parameter dabuild failed nil