I would like to find a way to test the contents of a fileset which has nested 
selectors in it, without for instance invoking the copy task on it.

I thought of using <pathconvert> to convert the filesets into properties. The 
problem there is that <pathconvert> only expands the files contained in a 
fileset, not the directories. The code of the <path> datatype only pulls the 
files contained in a fileset, and this should not be changed without adding new 
attributes somewhere.
To get the whole fileset with directories, would it be thinkable to do the 
following :
<pathconvert property="fileset.expanded" targetos="unix">
   <pathelement includedirs="true">
        <fileset dir="somedir">
              <type type="dir"/>
        </fileset>
   </pathelement>
</pathconvert>
This would be putting into the property "fileset.expanded" all directories 
under "somedir".
Would such a syntax be OK ?

Antoine

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