Well, no: I didn't explain myself clearly :) I want to update several XML files _in place_ : I don't want an "output" directory, because then I'll have to find a way to put the files back in their original location :)
so, if I do source=file.xml and dest=file.xml it overwrites the original file with the change. If I do source=**/file.xml without a dest= it doesn't actually do anything. If I do source=**/file.xml and dest=**/file.xml it doesn't do anything (which makes sense: how can you have multiple outputs? :) ) If I use <fileset> with a wildcard <include name="**/file.xml"> then it doesn't do anything either (without the dest being set to a file, it seems to use buffers exclusively) I've guessed that maybe I could somehow do a <fileset> to obtain the list and then iterate over that list with xmltask, but that seems backwards (and I can't figure out how to make that work cleanly) Thanks! Dana Lacoste From: Brian Agnew [mailto:br...@oopsconsultancy.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 2:43 AM To: Lacoste, Dana (TSG Software San Diego) Cc: xmltask-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Xmltask-users] Using replace on multiple files? >From the manual: <xmltask todir="output"> <fileset dir="."> <includes name="*.xml"/> ..... reads from the XML files in the current dir and writes to the same filenames in the output dir. So you need to identify the directory to write to, and it'll process each file and write the results to the specified directory. Brian On 29/5/09 02:19, Lacoste, Dana (TSG Software San Diego) wrote: So I can do this: <xmltask source=file1.txt dest=file1.txt> with a <replace> task and update that file's content. Is there a way I can do this with multiple files? i.e. when I set "source" to **/*.xml (for example) it doesn't actually change anything if I don't set dest as well (I'm guessing it's setting output to a buffer, which I'm not reading so I don't see any change to the files) (this is true if I do it as a source= or as a <fileset><include>) Any suggestions? Dana Lacoste ________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Xmltask-users mailing list Xmltask-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Xmltask-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmltask-users -- Brian Agnew http://www.oopsconsultancy.com OOPS Consultancy Ltd Tel: +44 (0)7720 397526 Fax: +44 (0)20 8682 0012
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