Hmm... I just tried this with no problem. Do you want the "<" and ">"
in the file you're creating? Then, I found this works:
<echo message="<p>{latest.error}" file="${filename}"
append="true"/>
Notice no spaces...
On 9/24/07, boomdizzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Forgot to mention, that I tried with '& lt ;' and '& gt ;' (spaces added on
> purpose), but when the file is included directly in html, it displays the
> <p> inline and does not process it as a html tag. So that doesn't do it for
> me either.
>
> Thanks,
> Boom
>
>
>
> boomdizzle wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to echo html to a file from an ant script. Obviously, this is not
> > working
> >
> > <echo file="${filename}" message="<p>@{latest.error}" append="true"/>
> >
> > I get the error: The value of attribute "message" associated with an
> > element type "echo" must not contain the '<' character.
> >
> > Escaping the '<' with '\' does not seem to work. I know this should be
> > possible - I'm pretty sure I am not the first one wanting to echo markup
> > to a file.
> >
> > Can someone point me to the obvious thing I am missing,
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Boom
> >
> >
> >
>
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