Mark
I'm trying to something similar (see below) but I get the following XML error:
C:\>ant -buildfile frameworkx-build.xml -projecthelp
Buildfile: frameworkx-build.xml
BUILD FAILED
C:\frameworkx-build.xml:3: The content beginning "<!" is not legal markup. Perhaps the "!" () character should be a letter.
Total time: 0 seconds
Any idea what is the problem?
Thanks
Mick
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE project [
<!ENTITY fwTargets SYSTEM "framework-build.xml">
]>
<project name="frameworkx" default="main" basedir=".">
<!-- Give user a chance to override without editing this file
(and without typing -D each time it compiles it) -->
<property name="name" value="frameworkx"/>
&fwTargets;
</project>
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 04 April 2001 16:36
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Build.xml and reuse
I have per-project and shared xml files to achieve this.
The project build.xml has pieces like this:
...
<!-- Include standard entities
-->
<!DOCTYPE project [
<!ENTITY commonProperties SYSTEM "../admin/common.xml">
<!ENTITY projectProperties SYSTEM "project.xml">
<!ENTITY commonTargets SYSTEM "../admin/targets.xml">
]>
<!-- Start of project build description
-->
<project name="XXX" default="compile" basedir=".">
...
<!-- ======================================================================
-->
<!-- Import all the common build targets
-->
<!-- ======================================================================
-->
&commonTargets;
<!-- ======================================================================
-->
<!-- inclusion : Import all the common and project-specific properties
-->
<!-- ======================================================================
-->
<target name="inclusion">
&commonProperties;
&projectProperties;
</target>
Which all works nicely for me!
#!/mjh
-----Original Message-----
From: Danil Suits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 28 March 2001 20:30
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Build.xml and reuse
Has anyone experimented with reusing the targets within the build.xml file?
I frequently find myself wanting to work on only a subsystem of the project.
I could add a new target to the build.xml file - but that publishes my local
work to every developers machine, which isn't appropriate in this case.
What I'm currently considering is moving the contents of the project to a
new file (common.xml), replacing them in build.xml with an XML include, then
creating mybuild.xml which includes common.xml, plus whatever other changes
I need. build.xml remains under source control, as does common.xml, but
mybuild.xml is not under control.
I'm sure this will work, and I'm also sure that it is kind of clumsy - has
anybody discovered a better way to achieve target reuse?
Thanks,
Danil
