Angus,
Here is an e-mail I located in the archives regarding typedef. Let us know
if you still have troubles after trying out the advice mentioned in it:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=99845807313771&w=2
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "McCollum , Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:59 PM
Subject: RE: Are all nexted elements implemented as DataType extensions?
> Thank you Erik. Both of those are great examples of nesting tasks.
>
> I was thinking about my problem wrong though. I should have been using a
> custom type. I have a task that produces XML reports and writes them to
> disk. I wanted the task to take a set of nested elements that describe the
> list of reports to create.
>
> Unfortunately my problem is now finding where the typedef element is
> expected in the build file. I assume that it should be in the project
> element before it is used.
>
> Ant gives me the following error whereever I put the typedef element:
>
> 10: Unexpected element "typedef"
>
>
> G. Angus McCollum
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 5:42 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Are all nexted elements implemented as DataType extensions?
>
>
> Have a look at the Sequential and Parallel built-in Ant tasks (in Ant
1.4).
> They implement TaskContainer. That should point you in the right
direction
> for implementing a task that contains other tasks.
>
> Erik
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "McCollum , Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:43 PM
> Subject: Are all nexted elements implemented as DataType extensions?
>
>
> > I created a custom Ant task with a nested element. I had writen the
nested
> > element as a Task but failed to get the addXXXX method called on the
> > enclosing task.
> >
> > I took a look at the Ant source and noticed that all the examples I
found
> > used nested element that were DataTypes and not Tasks. Is this always
the
> > case? Should I have structed my nested element as a DataType and not a
> Task?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > G. Angus McCollum
> >
>
