[wix-users] Applying patch with heat

[Phill Hogland]

For #1, I seen many similar examples in google resuts and there may be several approaches, but the approach I uses is something like:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:wix='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi'
    xmlns:fire='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/FirewallExtension'
    xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi'
    exclude-result-prefixes='wix'
    >

  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8"/>
  <xsl:strip-space  elements="*"/>

  <xsl:template match="@*|*">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
      <xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:key name="pdb-search" match="wix:Component[contains(wix:File/@Source, '.pdb')]" use="@Id" />
  <xsl:template match="wix:Component[key('pdb-search', @Id)]" />
  <xsl:template match="wix:ComponentRef[key('pdb-search', @Id)]" />

</xsl:stylesheet>


For #2 it would take some more research.  Maybe something like this will help

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18078679/how-to-add-attribute-to-a-parent-node-conditioned-by-a-child-element-with-inden
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Like in this other question I have difficulty to express simple things with XSLT1... In a xsl:stylesheet I have this "identity like" transform to add an attribute ...



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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Helge Kruse <Helge.Kruse at gmx.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:54:49 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Subject: [wix-users] Applying patch with heat

While harvesting files from a directory I failed to meet two requirements:
- Some files shall be omitted. The selection shall be on the file name.
e.g. all .PDB files should be excluded for the installation.
- Files containing a .NET assembly shall have the corresponding
attributes: Assembly, AssemblyManifest, AssemblyApplication. This should
register these files in the GAC.

I could exclude the files by creating a temporary folder, copy only
required files to the temporary, and call heat with that folder. But
since the missing attributes are still an open issue, I though about the
Transform option of heat.


The heat command allows to apply a patch based on an XSL file to the
harvester output. So I could invoke it like

  heat dir SomeFolderName -o xx.wxs -t myTransform.xsl

Unfortunately the page
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/heat.html shows
only the possibility to perform a transform, but I could not find an
example for this.

I would like to do two operations.
(1) <Component> nodes containing a file with a specific extension (.pdb)
should be removed.
(2) <File> nodes with specific extensions (.exe, .dll) should get
additional attributes:
- Assembly=".net"
- AssemblyManifest="[File/Name]"
- AssemblyApplication="[File/Name]"
Where [File/Name] stands for the name of the file at the installed file
name.

I am not experienced with XML transform language. Do you know examples
or tutorials how this can be implemented?

Is there a different way to add the attributes like "Assembly" to files
during harvesting?

Regards,
Helge

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