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From: jfuller@ruminate.co.uk
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Subject: Re: Find value between xml tags
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"Sanjeev_Das" <Sanjeev_Das@infosys.com> wrote ..
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I need to find out the value present in between the xml tags. Is there
> any specific task in Ant to do so? If not can anyone suggest a
> workaround.

you could use antcontrib's regular expression capabilities in its propertyregex task.....the following is untested though!

<target name="matchxml" description="match xml using regular expression">

<!-- load xml file into property -->
<loadfile property="xml.conf"
      srcFile="conf/application.properties.xml"/>

<!-- match <test> </test> element -->
<propertyregex property="output"
              input="xml.conf"
              regexp="&lt;test&gt;([^\.]*)&lt;test&gt;"
              select="\1"
              casesensitive="false" />

<!-- print out the value -->
<echo message="${output}"/>

</target>

note my regex is untested...though it should be something like this...cant remember how I dealt with the entity issues before.

hth, Jim Fuller


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