2009/9/14 Scott Stark :
> Joe wrote:
>> That's not correct: ant properties in the file are expanded inline.
>> See http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/property.html for details
>> (I don't know about ${file.separator}, though)
>
> I see that in the documentation; however it's not working for me.
Joe wrote:
> That's not correct: ant properties in the file are expanded inline.
> See http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/property.html for details
> (I don't know about ${file.separator}, though)
I see that in the documentation; however it's not working for me.
My properties file:
script_dir
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 20:35, Scott Stark wrote:
>
> Hi, this is probably a dumb question but I couldn't find the answer in the
> online doc.
>
> I want to import a set of properties from an XML file when I run an Ant
> build from the command line. I can do that with the -propertyfile param if
>
2009/9/11 Scott Stark :
>> Any particular reason you're not using a plain old properties file?
>
> Also I've noticed you can't "inherit" properties in a properties file. For
> example, this doesn't work:
>
> projectRoot=C:\\working
> documentSource=${projectRoot}\\documents
>
> And you can't even u
> Any particular reason you're not using a plain old properties file?
Also I've noticed you can't "inherit" properties in a properties file. For
example, this doesn't work:
projectRoot=C:\\working
documentSource=${projectRoot}\\documents
And you can't even use ${file.separator}...
Scott
"Thomas Boyles" wrote:
> Any particular reason you're not using a plain old properties file?
Well I wanted to make it editable by an XML editor, as well as put comments
and such in there to make it more readable. Just wondering if there's a way
to import an XML file at the command line, since it
Any particular reason you're not using a plain old properties file?
-Original Message-
From: Scott Stark [mailto:sst...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:36 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Newbie question: importing properties from XML file via command
line
Hi, th
Hi, this is probably a dumb question but I couldn't find the answer in the
online doc.
I want to import a set of properties from an XML file when I run an Ant
build from the command line. I can do that with the -propertyfile param if
the file has name=value pairs in it. Any way to do this with an
