No, unfortunately, Ant does not currently support dependency lists except
with the depends="..." attribute.
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Ellsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: How to specify depends as a list of elements, rather than an
attribute?
> Hi, all.
>
> Does ANT allow an element-based statement of target dependencies, rather
> than an attribute based one? In other words, is there any way to say:
>
> <target name="build-thing">
> <depends>
> build-subthing1
> </depends>
> <depends>
> build-subthing2
> </depends>
> -- other stuff
> </target>
>
> rather than
>
> <target name="build-thing" depends="build-subthing1, build-subthing2">
> -- other stuff
> </target>
>
> Why do I want this?
>
> I generate my build.xml from a list in an xml file via xslt. I have a
> project named "thing" that depends on other projects subthing1 and
> subthing2. I want to produce a target with the name build-thing with
> depends="build-subthing1, build-subthing2"
>
> I currently have a projectlist.xml that specifies these as:
>
> <project name="thing">
> <dependency type="project" name="subthing1"/>
> <dependency type="project" name="subthing2"/>
> </project>
>
> By simply applying a style task to
>
> <xsl:for-each select="project">
> <target name="build-{@name}" depends="init">
> -- other stuff
> </target>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> gives me a build.xml with
>
> <target name="build-thing" depends="init">
> -- other stuff
> </target>
>
> XSLT like:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="project">
> <target name="build-{@name}" depends="init">
> <xsl:for-each select="depends">
> <depends>
> build-{@name}
> </depends>
> </xsl:for-each>
> -- other stuff
> </target>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> would give me
>
> <target name="build-thing">
> <depends>
> build-subthing1
> </depends>
> <depends>
> build-subthing2
> </depends>
> -- other stuff
> </target>
>
> I cannot figure out how to make xslt give me
>
> <target name="build-thing" depends="build-subthing1, build-subthing2">
> -- other stuff
> </target>
>
> I am constrained against using javascript, as they want this entirely
> done either in core ant or in xslt space.
>
> Scott
>
>
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