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 56391 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2000 13:16:55 -0000 Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (24.0.95.83) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 11 Dec 2000 13:16:55 -0000 Received: from sas.upenn.edu ([24.40.59.99]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001211131525.BHWY18624.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@sas.upenn.edu> for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:15:25 -0800 Sender: s Message-ID: <3A34D359.A414B0E4@sas.upenn.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:15:05 -0500 From: stinney@sas.upenn.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: "include" equivalent in ant? References: <3.0.6.32.20001211183549.009a4e80@latcs2.cs.latrobe.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Peter Donald wrote: > > 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. One thing to look at would be xinclude (http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude), that would still be pure XML. Steve