Stefan Bodewig wrote: >It took me a rather long time to see that the parser shipped with Ant >chokes on comments inside elements like > ><javac ... > <!-- deprecation="on" --> >/> > >nsgmls didn't complain at all and I'm not sure who is right here, but >the provided parser exception sure didn't help at all.
I agree - the current Ant plus the current parser doesn't tend to produce very helpful error messages. You can change to Xerces by modifying org/apache/tools/ant/parser.properties. Hopefully shortly (I imagine this month), the xml parser will be removed from Ant and whichever parser you happen to have in your classpath will be the one used. - Sam Ruby
