Hello Karsten, it appears you have not gotten an answer and you may have 
already resolved the issue. But, for-whatever-it's-worth here is a custom xml 
configuration file that is processed during the build and jar targets. for the 
following XML elements found in my XML config file:

<password>
  @DBPASSWORD@
</password>
<connectUrl>
  @JDBCURL@
</connectUrl>

I used the following ant target task elements in my target named: compile.src:

<copy toDir="${classes}/META-INF" failonerror="false">
                        <fileset dir="${resources}">
                                <include name="*.xml" />
                        </fileset>
                        <filterset>
                                <filter token="JDBCURL"         
value="${jdbcurl}" />
                                <filter token="DBPASSWORD"      
value="${dbpassword}" />
                        </filterset>
</copy>

The properties jdbcurl and dbpassword are defined in my build.properties file. 
The filterset replaces all instances of @JDBCURL@ and @DBPASSWORD@ with the 
actual string values.

HTH, David.


Karsten Kousgaard wrote ..
> Hello
> 
> I'm doing my first ANT project, but have faced a problem that I'm not able
> to solve. I have a xml file, which I want to change using a dynamic 
> configuration
> file of some kind. The configuration file could look like this: 
> <replace path="an xpath" value="the new value" />
> <replace path="an xpath" value="the new value" /> 
> .. 
> 
> That fits perfect together with the external task, xmltask. Now the problem
> for me is, how do I parse and iterate the configuration file, to give the
> correct values to xmltask?
> 
> I also thought about using xslt, but I don't know how to do that either.
> My xslt knowledge is not good enought for this problem.
> Another challenge is that the configuration file could have properties
> that I would like to resolve, e.g. <replace path="an xpath" 
> value="${myProperty}"
> />.
> But this is more a nice-to-have than a must-have. Any help about solving
> this? Thank you very much
> 
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