Hi, thanks for your suggestions :
> Remember that in XML < is turned into < before ant sees it, so you > need to escape the search and replace > strings: > > > <propertyregex property="foobar" > input="${auftrag.bemerkung}" > regexp="&lt;" > replace="<" > casesensitive="false" /> but : <property name="foobar" value="<bla>foobar</bla>" /> <echo>${foobar}</echo> <propertyregex property="foo" input="${foobar}" regexp="&lt;" replace="<" casesensitive="false" /> <echo>${foo}</echo> just gives me : [echo] <bla>foobar</bla> [echo] ${foo} hm, let's see the other way around : <echo file="J:/test/test.txt">fixed=${foobar}</echo> yup, the property is written as : fixed=<bla>foobar</bla> but doesn't work either, when loading the propertyfile afterwards, property ${fixed} get's not expanded --> ${fixed} Even after manuelly changing the propertyfile to : fixed=<bla>foobar</bla> it does not get expanded. Any other ideas ?!? by4now, Gilbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]