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--- George McKinney wrote:

> The brute force way would be
>      <property name="pt1" value="/base/rootdir/subdir1/"/>
>      <property name="pt2" value="subdir2/subdir3/subdir4"/>
>      <property name="longdir" value="${pt1}${pt2}"/>
> Although you might prefer a ${base} property that has the common root
and
> concatenate that with specific sub-paths whenever you need them.

Agreed.  And we do that.  Here's another example:

   <javadoc doctitle="SMSI Java API Reference"
        header="&amp;copy; Copyright SMSI, 2000, 2001, 2002&lt;br>All
Rights Reserved"

Having to write:

   <property name="header1" value="&amp;copy; Copyright SMSI, 2000, "/>
   <property name="header2" value="2001, 2002&lt;br>All Rights
Reserved"/>
   <property name="javadoc_header" value="${header1}${header2}"/>

is amazingly unsatisfying.

Other thoughts?


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