Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 20079 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2000 07:40:44 -0000 Received: from mail.alphalink.com.au (203.24.205.7) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 11 Dec 2000 07:40:44 -0000 Received: from donalgar (d409-ps3-mel.alphalink.com.au [202.161.110.221]) by mail.alphalink.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA23057; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:40:34 +1100 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001211183549.009a4e80@latcs2.cs.latrobe.edu.au> X-Sender: pjdonald@latcs2.cs.latrobe.edu.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:35:49 +1100 To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org From: Peter Donald Subject: Re: "include" equivalent in ant? Cc: In-Reply-To: <085901c06343$ca00e9b0$020a0a0a@alsatian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N At 02:25 11/12/00 -0500, Jason Rosenberg wrote: >I would like to be able to include files as entities using paths >referred to by property variables, etc., and it doesn't seem to >be possible. In other words, I'd like to see: > > > >Is there anyway to do something like this? there is a way via entity handlers I believe but it wouldn't be true XML anymore. Not sure if that would be acceptable. It would be possible to add it to core but I am not sure I would like it. ie Would be fragments, raw text, documents etc. We are looking at such things for ANt2 but that is a while off. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*