This is orthogonal, but <tstamp> can already accept a fomatter.
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Ninju Bohra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/15/2005 12:45:14 PM:
> Hey Guys (and gals),
>
> I was writing my own task and need recieve a date format from the user.
> Wanting to make the task as flexible as possible, I want to be able
> to support values that contain ${...} text (that needs to be
> expanded) as well as verbatim text.
>
> The question is that it appears that the ${...} are already replaced
> for me on basic attribute sets...
> For example
> <tstamp/>
> <dateFormatter inputDate="${TODAY}" dateFormat="MMMM dd yyyy">
>
> In my new task (dateFormatter) the inputDate attribute contains the
> value of the TODAY property.
>
> I am not saying this bad, I was just surprised that it was already
> done for me...what the value of the Project.replaceProperties(...)
> method then?
>
>
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