Re: "include" equivalent in ant?

I like the <!ENTITY> approach as a kludge for including files.

However, it does appear to fall somewhat short for what I need.

I would like to be able to include files as entities using paths

referred to by property variables, etc., and it doesn't seem to

be possible. In other words, I'd like to see:

<!ENTITY buildFW SYSTEM "${buildRules}/buildFW.inc">

Is there anyway to do something like this?

In general, I do think it should be a fundamental addition to ANT

to have the ability include another file from a build script. It would

need to be a new piece of Ant syntax, that could only be added

to the core (it couldn't be a added as a custom task, etc.).

What I would like to do is have a standard template that I could

include from a configurable location.

Furthermore, I would like the include to behave as if the raw text

of the included file were just pasted in, in a pre-processing step,

before any property variable references are resolved, etc.

I don't think there is a way to do that currently, other than using

the <!ENTITY> kludge (which is limited).

Jason

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