Hi,
could you be a bit more specific when you say:
an ever so slightly less complicated way....would be to define dir.web
with ${file.seperator} instead of slashes....then you could drop the
pathconvert.
an example of what you mean may help.
Thanks
Rakesh
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:55:55 +0100, James Fuller
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> rakesh mailgroups wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >sometimes Ant gives you too many ways to do things and you cobble
> >something together that works but you think can probably done easier.
> >Here's what i am trying to do:
> >
> >My web.xml needs to contain a full path to a config file. This path
> >should work whether on windows or unix. The location is always in a
> >subdirectory of the base dir. Here's my Ant code:
> >
> ><path id="location.frontservletxmlfile">
> > <pathelement location="${dir.web}" />
> ></path>
> >...
> ><pathconvert targetos="windows" property="win"
> >refid="location.frontservletxmlfile" />
> > <echo>Path to xml file is: ${win}</echo>
> > <copy file="${dir.conf}/web.xml.template" toFile="${dir.web}/web.xml">
> > <filterset>
> >
> > <filter token="xml.location" value="${win}" /> </filterset>
> > </copy>
> >
> >the xml file goes from:
> ><param-value>@xml.location@/frontcontroller.xml</param-value>
> >to
> ><param-value>C:\Projects\HelloSample\web\WEB-INF/frontcontroller.xml</param-value>
> >
> >
> >
> an ever so slightly less complicated way....would be to define dir.web
> with ${file.seperator} instead of slashes....then you could drop the
> pathconvert.
>
> also if you are constantly doing the xml.location token replacement, try
> using the <copy/> task's filtering attribute and define a global build
> file filter.
>
> gl, Jim Fuller
>
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