IIRC <fileset> can take nested <patternset> elements; sounds like you could declare a named patternset and then re-use that patternset with many filesets.
-- Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WebSphere Build SWAT Team Lead WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis) https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/mantis "John Mc Quillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/06/2005 01:26:37 PM: > Does anyone know of a way to create a reference to a list of files without > specifying the directory that they are stored in and then to create filesets > from that list that specify the directory. > > So the application of this would be in the case where a set of files is > copied from a source directory to a deployment directory and then operated > on in the deployment directory. Instead of having to specify the entire > fileset twice, once in the source directory in order to do the copy and then > again in the deployment directory to do furher operations, it would be > useful to specify the list of files once as a reference. > > Thanks > > John >
