It's been a while since I've xmltasked. I'm having some trouble getting
done what I need.
I have some text in a couple properties (I'm hardcoding the values for
now) that I want to put into the "/web-app/description" element of a
web.xml file. If the element is already present, I want to add the new
text after " - ". If the element wasn't present, then create the
element with the new text.
I have two current problems:
If the "description" element was present already, it's supposed to
insert a value referencing the property containing the existing value.
Instead of the value of the property, it just inserts
"${existingDescription}". I tried printing out the property value after
the xmltask tag, and it appears to be fine.
If the "description" element was NOT present, I insert the new
"description" element (using that weird trick just talked about for
turning off insertion of empty "xmlns" attributes), but it inserts it as
the last child of "web-app", not the first. I don't see a way to do
this cleanly.
I also wish there was a cleaner way to "trim" the resulting output (see
what I had to do in the first "replace").
Here's my current code:
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<target name="install-label-info">
<taskdef name="xmltask"
classname="com.oopsconsultancy.xmltask.ant.XmlTask"
classpath="${file.reference.xmltask.jar}"/>
<property name="label" value="abc"/>
<property name="labelDesc" value="def"/>
<xmltask source="${build.web.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml"
dest="${build.web.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml" report="true">
<copy
path="/*[local-name()='web-app']/*[local-name()='description']/text()"
property="existingDescription"/>
<replace if="existingDescription"
path="/*[local-name()='web-app']/*[local-name()='description']/text()"
expandProperties="true"
><![CDATA[${existingDescription} - ${label}:
${labelDesc}]]></replace>
<paste unless="existingDescription"
path="/*[local-name()='web-app']/.">
<![CDATA[<description
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee";>${label}:
${labelDesc}</description>]]>
</paste>
<copy
path="/*[local-name()='web-app']/*[local-name()='description']/text()"
property="newDescription"/>
</xmltask>
<echo message="existingDescription[${existingDescription}]"/>
<echo message="newDescription[${newDescription}]"/>
</target>
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