This sounds interesting but I'm not sure I follow. Can you explain a little
more?
The concept of inputs/outputs to tasks (when called from other tasks) and
adding context info so tasks know about following task, and preceding tasks,
sounds interesting. But I'm not sure how this ties in here.
What would the user experience be? What would the syntax be?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Mastracci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> For tasks (such as the solution task), what about having C# classes in
> NAnt that map to XML itself? They could appear as XML to
> xmlpeek/xmlpoke/xmlforeach, but would be backed by C# classes internally.
>
> This would make it far simpler to "return" values from tasks.
>
> Martin Aliger wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to develop new xml type. Right now I have some preliminary
patch
> > to enable script like this:
> >
> > <xml id="x1">
> > <book>
> > <author>
> > <name>John</name>
> > <surname>Smith</surname>
> > </author>
> > <title>John Smith's life</title>
> > </book>
> > </xml>
> >
> > <target name="test">
> > <xmlpeek refid="x1" xpath="book/author/name" property="authorname"/>
> > <echo message="${authorname}"/>
> > </target>
> >
> > How you like it? I'm looking forward to your comments...
> >
> >
> > What I want to do is something James and Ivan also proposed: add some
way to
> > return information from task back to script. I dont think that add
> > resultproperty/outputproperty to exec task and other whateverproperties
to
> > other tasks is good way. What I want to do is add one general attribute
> > (e.g. result) to all tasks. Result itself will be xml dom with
potentionaly
> > many values. exec task could for example have in it full commandline
> > executed, result code, stdout, stderr and maybe even more things! So it
> > could be written something like this:
> >
> > <exec program="${csprojconv.dir}\Gordic.Develop.CsprojConverter.exe"
> > commandline="${foldername}\${folder}.csproj ${version}" result="res1" />
> > <xmlpeek refid="res1" xpath="output/resultcode"
property="resultcode"/>
> > <if test="${resultcode>2}">
> > <fail message="serious CsprojConverter error"/>
> > </if>
> >
> > or even shorter when function for xmlpeek exists!
> >
> > Martin
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials.
Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's
Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin.
Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click
_______________________________________________
nant-developers mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
