Dear Stefan,
Yes, now I am starting to understand what's going on here. Ant must use a SAX parser, and it's well beyond the ability of the application to reconsider how the events are interpreted, including grouping them as a larger bundle of straight text.
I've copied the XMLFragment code with a few modifications to achieve the requirements I was after and all was successful. Thanks to you and everyone else for your time and effort to answer this for me.
Best regards,
Brian Topping
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Brian Topping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to use DynamicConfigurator and need a bit of
clarification. I'd like to make the child text of a Task (defined
with a taskdef) be usable as a String by the Task.
That would be the addText(String) method, no DynamicFoo involved at all, if you really were talking about nested text.
The issue is that the "arbitrary" text is XML
which makes it nested elements, and not nested text at all.
Is this possible without wrapping the text in a CDATA?
Ant's CVS HEAD contains a class[1] that captures arbitrary XML structures, add a child element to your task via
public void addChild(XMLFragment frag) { ... }
and the you can use
<mytask> <child> ... arbitrary XML goes here ... </child> </mytask>
and then serialize the DocumentFragment held by XMLFragement into a String.
Stefan
Footnotes: [1] in src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/XMLFragment.java
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