Hi, I solved this problem like this (excerpt from my build file "do-actual-test.xml"):
1. The necessary macros (I'm using Ant 1.6.2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <!-- "set varying property" Set a generally named property whose name is available via @{propname} to the value of a more specifically named property whose name consists also of @{propname}, but is prepended by a prefix, whose value is stored in @{propprefix} --> <macrodef name="setvarprop"> <attribute name="propprefix" default="NOT SET" /> <attribute name="propname" default="NOT SET" /> <sequential> <property name="@{propname}" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]@{propname}}" /> </sequential> </macrodef> <!-- "set multiple varying properties" --> <macrodef name="setmultvarprop"> <attribute name="propprefix" default="NOT SET" /> <attribute name="propnames" default="NOT SET" /> <sequential> <for param="currpropname" list="@{propnames}" delimiter=" "> <sequential> <setvarprop propprefix="@{propprefix}" propname="@{currpropname}" /> </sequential> </for> </sequential> </macrodef> ------------------------------------------------------ 2. The invocation and the corresponding echo lines in target "do-actual-test": ------------------------------------------------------ <property name="propnamelist" value="transformer.type transformer.xml.input.file transformer.xsl.stylesheet transformer.output.file transformer.xsl.stylesheet.params" /> <setmultvarprop propprefix="${config.prop.prefix}" propnames="${propnamelist}" /> <echo message="*** transformer.type = ${transformer.type}" /> <echo message="*** transformer.xml.input.file = ${transformer.xml.input.file}" /> <echo message="*** transformer.xsl.stylesheet = ${transformer.xsl.stylesheet}" /> <echo message="*** transformer.output.file = ${transformer.output.file}" /> <echo message="*** transformer.xsl.stylesheet.params = ${transformer.xsl.stylesheet.params}" /> --------------------------------------------------------- Hope this is of some help. Kind regards, Holger
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