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1. =A0I think there was a patch put out on this list a couple of weeks =
ago to
add an option to the Zip task for storing files. =A0I had written my ow=
n
before the patch was published, so I never made use of it. =A0Anyone ca=
re to
repost the patch for Ron?

2. =A0There is no DTD for the Ant build file format. =A0The attributes =
of the
default tasks changes often enough that this would probably be a pain t=
o
maintain. =A0Also, you would have to give up the <taskdef ../> task in =
favour
of using an internal subset. =A0So your project file would look somethi=
ng
like

<?xml version=3D"1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "ant.dtd" [
<!ELEMENT custom_task>
<!ATTLIST custom_task
source CDATA #REQUIRED
doit (yes|no) "yes">
]>

<project ... >
=A0 <!-- This would be considered valid... -->
=A0 <custom_task source=3D"/build/blah" doit=3D"no" />

=A0 <!-- So would this... -->
=A0 <custom_task source=3D"/build/blah2" />

=A0 <!-- This is not valid, but is well formed... -->
=A0 <custom_task source=3D"/build/blah3" some_silly_attribute=3D"yadday=
addayadda"
/>
</project>

I'm not sure that at this state of the game, we really need valid build=
.xml
files. =A0Well-formed files let us change the code behind ant without h=
aving
to also update the DTD. =A0Comments anyone?

3. =A0I haven't found any other sources of info, but I haven't been loo=
king
that hard.

Glenn McAllister
TID - Software Developer - VisualAge for Java
IBM Toronto Lab, (416) 448-3805
"An approximate answer to the right question is better than the
right answer to the wrong question." - John W. Tukey

hello all!

well, i've tried finding my questions in the archive, but found the
email-interface a bit... um... "slow" i guess is the kindest word i can=
 say
for it (anyone considered creating an Web-based archive of the list?).

anyway, my questions are this:
1. is there any way to specify "0-compression" with the <jar> tag? =A0(=
i'm
betting the answer is "no" looking at the docs, so the next question is=
 is
<exec> the only option, other than writing a <jar0> task handler?)

2. is there a dtd out there somewhere for the Ant xml format? (dtd's ar=
e
finally getting easier to read than written descriptions for me - maybe=
 i'm
starting to understand this XML stuff after all!)

3. is jakarta.apache.org/ant the best/only place for Ant info?

thanks.
.............ron.

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