I would recommend *not* extending from DataType unless you have some 
reusability need for these nested elements and wish to define them 
outside of your task.

        Erik


Ryan Cuprak wrote:
>  To accomplish this, you need to write a param class that extends DataType,
> has a default constructor and setter/getter methods for the attributes. In
> the mytask (extends Task), you add a method "addParam" which takes your
> param class. 
>  Hopefully that answers your question!
> 
> -Ryan Cuprak
> 
> On 9/25/02 7:51 AM, "David M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I wanted to write a task along the following lines
>>
>><mytask srcfile="" destfile="">
>>      <param find="Key1" replaceWith="Value1"/>
>>      <param find="Key2" replaceWith="Value2"/>
>>
>>      <param find="Keyn" replaceWith="Valuen"/>
>></mytask>
>>
>>In reading through the documentation trying to write this task I came
>>across copy and filterset which seem to do exactly what I want.
>>
>>However, I would still like to understand how I would write this task.
>>
>>Looking at the Ant source code, it seems generic enough to be able to
>>handle arbitary nested elements, but what methods must I put on my task
>>class to support this? I am thinking createParam(), setParam() and
>>getParam().
>>
>>Do I need to create a ant.types.Param class?
>>
>>Any advice that helps me write this task would be gratefully received.
>>
>>Regards,
>>David
> 
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