I'm curious what you're trying to do. Three pattern that involve looping are 1) doing something for each element of a set, 2) repeating some action indefinitely, 3) computing something iteratively (e.g. solving for a polynomial root using the Laplace algorithm). Ant definitely is not suited for 2) and 3), unless you write your own script or task. Ant can do 1) for a set of files that match a pattern. You can also chain a style task with an ant task to do 1) for a set that can be expressed with XPath, but that involves using XSLT.
Rubun Tang wrote: > Hi *, > > I am sure this question has been asked before. But I couldn't find it in the > archive. > What I want to know is: Is there an ant task that do looping? Basically I am > looking for something like this: > > <for ...> > stuff that I want to do within a loop > </for> > > or > > <while> > ... > </while> > > Any help is appreciated. TIA > > Rubun Tang > Associate Software Engineer > Algorithmics Inc. > ____________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 416.217.4460 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Part 1.2 Type: application/ms-tnef > Encoding: base64 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
