Re: xmlproperty not expanding

2012-06-06 Thread Ronald Albury
Thank you Simon. I missed that sentence and did get sucked in by the examples. There are also a number of postings I found on Google that also seem it say it works as I expected. Should this be considered a bug? It certainly seems like a significant deficiency to me. Why should xmlproperty fai

Re: xmlproperty not expanding

2012-06-06 Thread Simon Murcott
Hi Ronald, if you look at the manual for XmlProperty you will find the following statement: "By default, this load does *no* processing of the input. In particular, unlike the Property task , property references (i.e., ${foo}) are not resolved." Un

xmlproperty not expanding

2012-06-06 Thread Ronald Albury
My understanding is that the xmlproperty task is supposed to expand references to external properties just like the regular property task does. However, it does not seem to work for me. The output below is from ant 1.7 - however I have downloaded the latest ant and it has the same issue. *Here i