Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 55277 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 22:45:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 22:45:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 5039 invoked by uid 97); 12 Mar 2002 22:45:24 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 5012 invoked by uid 97); 12 Mar 2002 22:45:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 4986 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 22:45:23 -0000 Message-Id: <200203122245.g2CMjLN11657@mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Peter Donald To: "Ant Developers List" Subject: Re: [PROPOSE] task parameters that are only supplied when a property is defined Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:41:19 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <3C8949EE.9C0A888E@progress.com> In-Reply-To: <3C8949EE.9C0A888E@progress.com> X-Wisdom-Cookie: . MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 10:31, Bill Burton wrote: > In of itself, the above modifications alone will not completely solve the > problem as an attribute may still be called with a blank value but it > would still be very useful in a significant number of cases. Over time, > tasks could be modified to support ignoring attributes with blank values > where appropriate provided this doesn't affect backward compatibility. Rather than doing this which I consider a little hacky - it would be much nicer to allow users to use a full templating language (XSLT, Velocity or something else) to do templating like this. -- Cheers, Pete -------------------------------------------------- "An intellectual is someone who has been educated beyond their intelligence." -------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: