Ninju Bohra wrote:
Well,
The safe answer is yes and no...
Out of the box, the ANT distribution (along with the ant-contrib project) comes with a number of concepts (tasks and structures) that would be helpful (<copy>, <fileset>, <propertyregex>, etc...) to accomplish MOST of what you want.
The one area that is not currently pre-built is the ability to read a value from an artibrary XML file. But since ANT is fully expandable, it should be possible to write a quick custom task, or a small piece of <script> code, to accomplish the XML reading. I say this, with great confidence, because I had to extend our ANT build file so that I could read values from an XML files and put them in a property value and was able to write a generic custom task in about a 6 hours to do just that.
If you have a fully installed ANT environment and are interested in my custom task, please let me know...
Henning Waack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all.
btw you could just load up an xml file using <xmlproperties/> which does give you access to value encapsulated by elements and attributes...additionally there are a few existing 3rd party XML tasks for assisting in this.
gl, Jim Fuller
I am new to Ant, I have no experience with it. I need to evaluate if Ant can be used for a project I work on. Since I have some difficulties getting the information I need from the web, I would like to give you a rough overview of my demands and ask you to tell me, if this is possible. I don't need any specific implementation, just the information if it is useful to use ant for my project or some other language.
One requirement for the project is the following. I have a XML-file with directory names in it, like:
someDir anotherDir ... According to these entries, I need to access the directories and copy all files within (and all files in subdirectories) to one single directory. Also, I need to rename all files, giving them a prefix with the value of the directory they are stored in.
Can this be done reasonably with Ant?
Thank you very much for you help.
Bye,
Henning
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