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From: "stephan beal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Friday 22 March 2002 00:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have identified two approaches to achieve this. One is to get all
> > tasks to implement a toXML method. These methods would return an XML
> > String representing that task instance. This obviously requires a lot
> > of code changes.
>
> With a serialize-to-xml framework it becomes pretty simple. i know one
exists
> in Java, but i can't remember the name.
I don't think its quite that simple.... how would such a framework get
attribute values and such to reconstruct the XML? There are typically no
getters on Ant tasks to return back attributes and sub-elements.
And also, keep in mind that an Ant task does not necessarily extend Task....
the only requirement to being an Ant task is implementing an execute()
method!
Erik
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