> From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 7:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: replacement of properties in addText(String) > > In > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11585 > there is a discussion about whether ant core should > do property replacement or whether a new introspection > method could be added to do this. > > If a new introspection method is added (this is quite easy > to do), what should it be called? > > I was thinking of addExpandedText(), but there could > be tasks out there with <exandedtext/> elements. > > Peter
Why not simply addText(String message, boolean replaceProperties)? Since it's a two-args method, it can no longer conflict with an introspection point. Also, can someone explain me why Ant merges all the text segments of a node, when this node contains child elements? SAX doesn't, so why does Ant merge them? You thus loose the relative ordering between the child elements and the text notes... I'm sure someone will argue against mixed content, but adding String to a StringBuffer upon each call to addText(String) is no big deal at all IMHO, and the current behavior prevents useful uses of the lost ordering. Thanks, --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
