Ah. You have a namespace, and so you either need to scope the /plugin path
or specify it as the 'local' name.
Try this:
<attr path="/:plugin" attr="version" value="{whatever}"/>
Basically if a namespace is defined, then you'll need to qualify all your
nodes with a ':'. e.g. /:a/:b/:c
Brian
On Fri, January 30, 2009 16:18, Edmund Spatzenegger wrote:
> I was using XMLTask for parsing an midifiying an XML File but it did not
> work as expected.
> The XML file im am parsing lhas the followin structure:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <plugin xmlns="http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS";
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> description="myplugin"
> name="myplugin"
> schemaVersion="5.2"
> vendor="Sun Microsystems "
> version="1.0"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS plugin.xsd">
>
> ................
>
> </plugin>
>
>
> what I am trying to do ist to modify the "version" attribute in the
> <plugin> tag. But I cant locate it using XMLTask:
> Here's my Ant snippet:
>
> <xmltask
> source="${plugin.jar.dir}/main/${plugin.descriptor.name}"
> dest="${plugin.content.dir}/${plugin.descriptor.name}">
> <attr path="/plugin" attr="version" value="${plugin.version}"/>
> </xmltask>
>
> but this won't change anything.
>
> Next I tried to use wildcards:
> <xmltask
> source="${plugin.jar.dir}/main/${plugin.descriptor.name}"
> dest="${plugin.content.dir}/${plugin.descriptor.name}">
> <attr path="/*" attr="version" value="${plugin.version}"/>
> </xmltask>
> This worked fine but I'm afraid this will also modify other occurences
> of verion attributes.
> Can anybody tell me what's wrong with my first approach?
>
> Regards
>
> Edmund
>
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