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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:30:58 +0200
From: "Antoine Levy-Lambert" <antoine@gmx.de>
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Hello,

before you go the generation route, should you not first try to create a common build file which your different build files would import and which would contain some common targets and some macro definitions ?

If you absolutely have to do generation, XSLT is a possibility. I have also seen velocity used to generate ant build files, it works and is kind of neat. I do not know webmacro nor xmlpreprocess.

Regards,

Antoine
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Datum: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:18:47 -0700 (PDT)
Von: Hessu X <hemulaattori@yahoo.com>
An: user@ant.apache.org
Betreff: Deed need for preprocessing

> Hello,
>    
>   I am using ant to keep my projects in sensible order. It also gives me
> possibility efficient run of process by parallel tasks.
>   I am not building, just massaging builds to amount of different
> packages.
>   And I am not doing java.
>    
>   I am looking something to shrink dozens of my partly hardcoded ant xml
> files for reasonable manner. I 'm very close to get in the situation of
> maintenance chaos (same data in several places etc). 
>    
>   I thought something like preprocessor: it should take a project file and
> generate ant build file so I could feed it to ant with generated
> properties.
>    
>   I have several options on checking :
>    
>   * webmacro-2.0
>   * velocity
>   * xmlpreprocess
>   http://xmlpreprocess.sourceforge.net/
>    
>   Any comments on these?!
>   More ideas?
>    
>    
>    
> 
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