Hi, found another oddity after upgrading to Ant 1.7.1, regarding the handling of properties and xmlproperties.
<project name="bla" default="main" basedir="."> <!-- // Taskdefs --> <!-- Import AntContrib --> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml" /> <!-- Taskdefs // --> <!-- // Properties --> <property file="props.txt" /> <xmlproperty file="props.xml" keeproot="false" /> <!-- Properties // --> <target name="main"> <echo>${ant.version}</echo> <echo>$${xmlkey} == ${xmlkey}</echo> <echo>$${txtkey} == ${txtkey}</echo> <if> <isset property="xmlkey"/> <then> <echo>xmlkey set and != null</echo> </then> <else> <echo>xmlkey not set</echo> </else> </if> <if> <isset property="txtkey" /> <then> <echo>txtkey set and != null</echo> </then> <else> <echo>txtkey not set</echo> </else> </if> </target Testpropertyfiles both xmlkey and txtkey are null <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root> <xmlkey></xmlkey> <xmlfoo>bar</xmlfoo> </root> ------ txtfoo=bar txtkey= ant 1.6.5 [echo] Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005 [echo] ${xmlkey} == ${xmlkey} [echo] ${txtkey} == [echo] xmlkey not set [echo] txtkey set and != null means txt and xmlproperty behave different seems to be fixed now, as ant 1.7.1 gives the same result for txt and xmlproperty = ant 1.7.1 [echo] Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on June 27 2008 [echo] ${xmlkey} == [echo] ${txtkey} == [echo] xmlkey set and != null [echo] txtkey set and != null Testpropertyfiles both xmlkey and txtkey are " " <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root> <xmlkey> </xmlkey> <xmlfoo>bar</xmlfoo> </root> ------ txtfoo=bar txtkey= *blank* ant 1.6.5 [echo] Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on June 27 2008 [echo] ${xmlkey} == ${xmlkey} [echo] ${txtkey} == [echo] xmlkey not set [echo] txtkey set and != null ant 1.7.1 [echo] Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on June 27 2008 [echo] ${xmlkey} == ${xmlkey} [echo] ${txtkey} == [echo] xmlkey not set [echo] txtkey set and != null means there's a difference between the handling of txtproperties and xmlproperties that existed in 1.6.5 and still exists in 1.7.1, should be the same for both kind of properties, i would expect = [echo] ${xmlkey} == [echo] ${txtkey} == Is that intended behaviour or just a bug ? Regards, Gilbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org