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I just write this quick and dirty test

<project name="test" default="server">
<target name="server">
    <property name="test" value="This will be echoed"/>
    <echo>${test}</echo>
</target>
</project>

F:\>ant
Buildfile: build.xml

server:
     [echo] This will be echoed

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds

My suggestion is if the solution works use it

Bye,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:26 AM
Subject: AW: txtfile with various lines


> in other words
> <echo message=${servrestart}/>

Sorry that is invalid - invalid xml. Attribute values have to be quoted.

<echo message="${servrestart}"/>

Then the Ant runtime would search for a property servrestart and evaluates
that to its value or - if not set - to ${servrestart}. So youŽll get
a) with value=Hello World
   [echo] Hello World
b) not set
   [echo] ${servrestart}

Back to the original thread: what you can do with unset properties is

<target name="server.check">
    <loadfile property="servrestart"> ...
</target>
<target name="server" depends="server.check" if="servrestart">
    <echo>Property set. Server has to be restarted.</echo>
</target>


Jan


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