1. �I think there was a patch put out on this list a couple of weeks ago to
add an option to the Zip task for storing files. �I had written my own
before the patch was published, so I never made use of it. �Anyone care to
repost the patch for Ron?
2. �There is no DTD for the Ant build file format. �The attributes of the
default tasks changes often enough that this would probably be a pain to
maintain. �Also, you would have to give up the <taskdef ../> task in favour
of using an internal subset. �So your project file would look something
like
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "ant.dtd" [
<!ELEMENT custom_task>
<!ATTLIST custom_task
source CDATA #REQUIRED
doit (yes|no) "yes">
]>
<project ... >
� <!-- This would be considered valid... -->
� <custom_task source="/build/blah" doit="no" />
� <!-- So would this... -->
� <custom_task source="/build/blah2" />
� <!-- This is not valid, but is well formed... -->
� <custom_task source="/build/blah3" some_silly_attribute="yaddayaddayadda"
/>
</project>
I'm not sure that at this state of the game, we really need valid build.xml
files. �Well-formed files let us change the code behind ant without having
to also update the DTD. �Comments anyone?
3. �I haven't found any other sources of info, but I haven't been looking
that hard.
Glenn McAllister
TID - Software Developer - VisualAge for Java
IBM Toronto Lab, (416) 448-3805
"An approximate answer to the right question is better than the
right answer to the wrong question." - John W. Tukey
hello all!
well, i've tried finding my questions in the archive, but found the
email-interface a bit... um... "slow" i guess is the kindest word i can say
for it (anyone considered creating an Web-based archive of the list?).
anyway, my questions are this:
1. is there any way to specify "0-compression" with the <jar> tag? �(i'm
betting the answer is "no" looking at the docs, so the next question is is
<exec> the only option, other than writing a <jar0> task handler?)
2. is there a dtd out there somewhere for the Ant xml format? (dtd's are
finally getting easier to read than written descriptions for me - maybe i'm
starting to understand this XML stuff after all!)
3. is jakarta.apache.org/ant the best/only place for Ant info?
thanks.
.............ron.
