ANT svn (trunk) supports loadFromXML in the properties task.
This has not been ported to the ANT 1.7 branch.
Peter

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Thorsten Scherler
<thorsten.scherler.ext@(protected):
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:56 -0800, Bruce Atherton wrote:
> > What I think you are missing is that the XML hierarchy translates into
> > the name of the property. This is true whether you use Semantic
> > Attributes or not, since they do not alter the name.
>
> Hmm, then I misunderstood
>
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/xmlproperty.html
> "Semantic Attributes
> ...
> id: The property is associated with the given id value."
>
> For me that sounds (and actually IMO makes awfully lot of sense) that if
> I use @id, the property will use this id as name.
>
> Then the java xml files from properties.loadFromXML(...) method will not
> work with the xmlproperty task either (let alone that they do not even
> have a @id), since they look like:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
> <properties>
>   <entry
> key="plugin.TestPlugin">com.plugin.test.TestPluginModule</entry>
>   <entry
> key="messages.TestPlugin">TestPluginMessages.properties</entry>
> </properties>
>
> Is there interest to have a java compatible xml properties task, if so I
> will likely need to write one for my current project and can submit a
> patch.
>
> Thanks for your answer Bruce.
>
>
> salu2
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