Thanks, Jeffrey.
I got it to work as per your suggestion.
In case it might be useful to anyone else, I include a sample extract.
<patternset id="config.files">
<include name="xyz.xml"/>
<include name="abc.properties"/>
</patternset>
<copy todir="${deploy.dir}" overwrite="true">
<fileset dir="${src.dir}">
<patternset refid="config.files"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
<replaceregexp match='logging=".*"' replace='logging="${logging.setting}"'
flags="g">
<fileset dir="${deploy.dir}">
<patternset refid="config.files"/>
</fileset>
</replaceregexp>
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey E Care [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 July 2005 18:36
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: References
IIRC <fileset> can take nested <patternset> elements; sounds like you
could declare a named patternset and then re-use that patternset with many
filesets.
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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
>
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