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Subject: Re: Newbie help <property>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:46:40 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Volkar" <jvolkar@etransport.com>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 4:44 AM
Subject: Newbie help <property>


> Okay, once more...
>
> It seems that properties are only inheritable "downwards" thru a series of
> <antcall>'s.  I can see why this is (you would not want child targets
> messing up parent target property settings.  However, I have a situation
> where I want a child <target> to set properties that I want to use in the
> parent <target>.  (see "expand-properties" in the attached sample)
>
> How could I allow a child target to set a property that would then be
> visible to a calling target?
>

save them to a file with <propertyfile>; load them back using <property
file>


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