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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:21:36 -0600
From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy@healthlanguage.com>
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Answering my own question, it appears that any datatype can be given an
"id" attribute.  However, each task that allows a reference id
determines what datatypes can be referenced.  As for "property", it
assumes that the referenced object has a meaningful toString() method
and uses its value to set the property.

For the pathconvert task that I posted, I can enhance it to deal with
referenced filesets in addition to paths.

Is this something people would want?

"Larry V. Streepy, Jr." wrote:
> 
> After a quick scan of the build.xml parsing code, it appears that all
> datatypes implicitly support an "id" attribute.  Is this correct?
> 
> --
> Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
> Chief Technical Officer and VP of Engineering
> 
> Health Language, Inc.  -- "We speak the language of healthcare"
> 
> 970/626-5028 (office)           mailto:streepy@healthlanguage.com
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-- 
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Chief Technical Officer and VP of Engineering

Health Language, Inc.  -- "We speak the language of healthcare"

970/626-5028 (office)           mailto:streepy@healthlanguage.com
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