[nant-dev] Adding XML support to or new task

[Matthew Mastracci]

I'm looking at adding XML iteration support for either the <foreach> 
task or perhaps a new, yet-unnamed task.  I would like to be able to 
iterate over a file based on an XPath query, picking up each matching 
element or attribute in turn.  <foreach> is the easiest place to add it, 
but it's not really a clean solution.

A better way would be to model a new <xmlforeach> task on the existing 
xmlpeek/xmlpoke tasks like so:

<xmlforeach file="foo.xml" xpath="/configuration/blahelement">
        <property name="someattribute" value="@attribute" />
        <property name="someinnertext" value="text()" />
        <do>
                <echo>${someattribute}, ${someinnertext}</echo>
        </do>
</xmlforeach>
How does this sound?

Matt.



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