Erik.Ostermueller@alltel.com wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out whether ANT is the right tool for a particular
> task.
>
> I'm writing a test harness that submits XML messages to a server.
>
> I've read the doc for custom tasks. It seems that ANT will parse the
> XML
> and pass it to your task one 'piece' at a time. The 'pieces' are things
> like
> values of attributes, element text, nested elements.
>
> I would like the top level of my custom task xml to behave exacltly like
> this.
> However, I'd like ANT to pass all nested XML to me in an unaltered form,
> not piece by piece.
Could you use CDATA and pass it as element content? Something like
<sendxml>
<message><![CDATA[
<servermessage>
...
]]></message>
</sendxml>
You get the content of the "message" nested element and send that off to the
server.
Conor
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