Loren Halvorson wrote:
This is just an expansion on the idea of how you might use <echo> to
generate an XML File:
<project name="Test" default="GenerateSettings">
<property name="setting.one" value="one"/>
<property name="setting.two" value="two"/>
<target name="GenerateSettings">
<echo file="foo.xml"><![CDATA[<settings>]]></echo>
<echo file="foo.xml" append="true"><![CDATA[ <property
name="setting.one">${setting.one}</property>]]></echo>
<echo file="foo.xml" append="true"><![CDATA[ <property
name="setting.two">${setting.two}</property>]]></echo>
<echo file="foo.xml" append="true"><![CDATA[</settings>]]></echo>
</target>
</project>
Gak! That looks awful. You can't see where the nant XML stops and the
content XML begins. You can't look at a specific </property> and tell
whether it's closing a NAnt property element or something in the
content. The bigger the target file, the worse it gets. And how do you
find typos?
As I indicated in my other note, it's much cleaner to use a template
file for the target XML.
Gary
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