If I can't use antcall, will I not be able to use the xmltask library,
which calls Ant targets on xmlpath strings? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lukas Theussl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:03 PM
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: Re: Maven1: How to use ant-contrib "foreach" in a 
> maven.xml goal
> 
> It's antcall, not antCall. However, I don't think this works 
> with maven anyway, as maven has goals, not targets. You 
> should transform your targets into goals and use attainGoal 
> to call them.
> 
> HTH,
> -Lukas
> 
> 
> Karr, David wrote:
> > Duh.  I should have known that.
> > 
> > Going on, however, I seem to be doing something wrong when I use 
> > "antCall" in the forEach loop to call a target, or 
> something at a more 
> > basic level.  The following is an excerpt showing the forEach loop 
> > that calls the target, and the target after it.
> > 
> >      <j:forEach items="${springContexts.iterator()}"
> > var="springContext">
> >       <echo message="springContext[${springContext}]"/>
> >       <ant:antCall target="processSpringContext" inheritAll="true">
> >        <param name="file" value="${springContext}"/>
> >       </ant:antCall>
> >      </j:forEach>
> >      <ant:target name="processSpringContext">
> >        <echo message="Processing the Spring context: ${file}"/>
> >      </ant:target>
> > 
> > When I call this, the first "echo" shows the name of the first file 
> > (there's only file in the set), but the rest of the output is odd 
> > (somewhat elided):
> > 
> > --------------
> >     [echo] springContext[...\MyServiceContext.xml]
> > <antCall inheritAll="true" target="processSpringContext"><param
> > value="...\MyServiceContext.xml" 
> name="file"></param></antCall><target
> > name="processSpringContext">    [echo] Processing the 
> Spring context: 
> > </target>castor:prepare-filesystem:
> > --------------
> > 
> > It puts the "antCall" code from maven.xml into the output, 
> showing the 
> > substitution in the "value" attribute, but when it executes 
> the "echo"
> > in the target, it prints blank for the parameter value.
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Lukas Theussl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:31 PM
> >>To: Maven Users List
> >>Subject: Re: Maven1: How to use ant-contrib "foreach" in a 
> maven.xml 
> >>goal
> >>
> >>You can use jelly's forEach tag [1], eg here is a snippet 
> used in the 
> >>m1 xdoc plugin:
> >>
> >>       <fileScanner var="xmlFiles">
> >>         <fileset dir="${maven.docs.src}">
> >>           <patternset>
> >>             <include name="**/*.xml"/>
> >>             <exclude name="**/${maven.xdoc.navigation.file}" />
> >>           </patternset>
> >>         </fileset>
> >>       </fileScanner>
> >>       <j:forEach var="file" items="${xmlFiles.iterator()}">
> >>         ...
> >>       </j:forEach>
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>-Lukas
> >>
> >>
> >>[1] http://commons.apache.org/jelly/tags.html
> >>
> >>
> >>Karr, David wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have a set of targets in an Ant script that I'm trying to
> >>
> >>integrate
> >>
> >>>into a goal in subproject maven.xml.  One of the steps is
> >>
> >>to iterate
> >>
> >>>over a list of files found in a directory, using the Ant-contrib 
> >>>"foreach" tag.  This works fine in the Ant script, but when
> >>
> >>I do this
> >>
> >>>in my maven.xml file, when it executes the "foreach" tag,
> >>
> >>it seems to
> >>
> >>>want to find the specified target in a "build.xml" in the
> >>
> >>same directory.
> >>
> >>>I'm guessing Ant-contrib's Foreach tag wasn't built to
> >>
> >>allow for this
> >>
> >>>possibility.  Is there a different way to do this that 
> will work in 
> >>>Maven 1?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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