On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:52 +0000, Peter Reilly wrote:
> ANT svn (trunk) supports loadFromXML in the properties task.
> This has not been ported to the ANT 1.7 branch.

Nice. Thanks for this update, will checkout trunk and give it a go.

salu2

> 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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