Custom tasks

[chuanjiang lo]

I would like to ask what is the steps of creating a task like this.

In the ant build file i have something,

<menu name="mainMenu>
   <item id="1">Compile</item>
  <item id="2">Javadoc</item>
</menu>

and the output on the console would be the menu items and asking for user
input

I know how to create simple task, but how should i tackle the items within
the tag.

Is there any examples i can look on?

Thanks