Stefan Bodewig wrote: > In fact Ant already adds some kind of meaning to id attributes of > targets/tasks/nested elements via Project.addReference, so the > basics for adding/retrieving richer objects by name are there.
Something that will need to be carefully rethought if we defer the creation of objects from XML until their use. - Sam Ruby P.S. I not only very much like the idea of named file sets, I would also like to have people consider other means of indirect references. A simple example: instead of naming the basedir for the jar task, instructing Ant to use the destdir on a specified javac task.
