Gilbert the right way of handling is to use pathconvert for the OS you are using <pathconvert targetos="unix" property="temp.home.converted"> <path path="${temp.home}"/> </pathconvert>
<echo>temp.home.converted is ${temp.home.converted}</echo> (and then later on refer to temp.home.converted) OR you could just substitute \\ so your parser doesnt think you are trying to use a single escape \ character Martin- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebhan, Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ant_user (E-Mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 5:43 AM Subject: Syntax error messagefile ?! Hi, what's wrong about : <mail mailhost="bla" subject="Deploy project -> ${projekt} !" failonerror="false"> <from address = "${user.name}"/> <to address = "${user.name}"/> <messagefile = ".\${temp.deploy}/infomail.txt"/> </mail> gives me : Element type "messagefile" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>". What's wrong here ?? Gilbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]