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On 10 Dec 2001, Magesh Umasankar <umagesh@rediffmail.com> wrote:

> What about <property name="foo" loadfile="somefile.txt/>
> instead?

Peter's gonna kill you 8-)

When we discussed this for Ant2 (it is on the list), his point was
(and he's right BTW) that we're already overloading <property> too
much.  Adding a nested element to property may be something different.

Stefan

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