> From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Also, can someone explain me why Ant merges all the text segments
> > of a node, when this node contains child elements? SAX doesn't...
>
> It has never really been a goal of Ant to support mixed content. In
> general, elements should either
>
> 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 c
On Friday 24 October 2003 14:56, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> > 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
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2003 14:59, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>> But those can't be Strings or would otherwise be completely
>> useless, at least.
> Dooh!..
Let's simply say that I've been around when we realized that
addText(String) was no
On Friday 24 October 2003 14:59, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was thinking of addExpandedText(), but there could
> > be tasks out there with elements.
>
> But those can't be Strings or would otherwise be completely useless,
> at least.
> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I was thinking of addExpandedText(), but there could
> > be tasks out there with elements.
> >
>
> Why not simply addText(String message, boolean replaceProperties)?
>
OK, this is silly of course. Never mind. --DD
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was thinking of addExpandedText(), but there could
> be tasks out there with elements.
But those can't be Strings or would otherwise be completely useless,
at least.
It is not addExpandedText() but addExpandedText(String) and a ta
> 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 whet
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 wa
