To simplify, if I do this:
<xmltask source="a.xml" dest="b.xml" report="true">
<insert path="/a/child::node()[1]/."
position="before"><![CDATA[<x/>]]></insert>
</xmltask>
to this:
<a>
<b/>
<c/>
</a>
I get this:
<a>
<x/>
<b/>
<c/>
</a>
which looks to me like what you want ?
Brian
On Fri, March 28, 2008 14:47, Karr, David wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Behalf Of Brian Agnew
>> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 6:50 AM
>> To: Karr, David
>> Cc: xmltask-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Xmltask-users] Add text to web-app/description
>> if it's present
>>
>>
>> I would certainly expect a position="before" to do what you
>> want. I think the samples in the src download must have some
>> examples/tests around this.
>
> I just went through all of the tests. I don't see anything similar to
> this scenario.
>
> Realize that I'm trying to insert this element as the first child of the
> "web-app" element. Using the default of "under" results in the element
> being inserted as the last child, not the first child.
>
> The only way I can see this could work is if I somehow found the actual
> current first child of "web-app" (I don't know for sure what it will
> be), and then insert with position="before". I tried using the
> following, but it didn't work:
>
> "/*[local-name()='web-app']/child::node()[1]/."
>
>>
>> >> On Thu, March 27, 2008 23:56, Karr, David wrote:
>> >> > 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
>> >> > "${existingDescription}". I tried printing out the
>> property value
>> >> > after the xmltask tag, and it appears to be fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > If the "description" element was NOT present, I insert the new
>> >> > "description" element (using that weird trick just
>> talked about for
>> >> > turning off insertion of empty "xmlns" attributes), but it
>> >> inserts it
>> >> > as the last child of "web-app", not the first. I don't see
>> >> a way to
>> >> > do this cleanly.
>> >> >
>> >> > I also wish there was a cleaner way to "trim" the
>> resulting output
>> >> > (see what I had to do in the first "replace").
>> >> >
>> >> > Here's my current code:
>> >> > ---------------------
>> >> > <target name="install-label-info">
>> >> > <taskdef name="xmltask"
>> >> > classname="com.oopsconsultancy.xmltask.ant.XmlTask"
>> >> > classpath="${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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