XMLTask
Information
xmltask provides the facility for automatically editing XML files as part of an Ant build. Unlike the standard filter task provided with Ant, it is XML-sensitive, but doesn't require you to define XSLTs.
Uses include:
- modifying configuration files for applications during builds
- inserting/removing information for J2EE deployment descriptors
- dynamically building Ant build.xml files during builds
- building and maintaining websites built with XHTML
- driving Ant via a meta build.xml to abstract out build processes
Homepage: http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/index.html
Example
There are 2 targets to help manipulate your XML files, one for replacing the text within an element and the other for replacing a value of an attribute ...
To use the xmltask.replace.text target, you need to set the properties described in the Common Build Targets document.
<![CDATA[
<target name="xmltask.replace.text">
<ant antfile="$" target="xmltask.replace.text">
<property name="xml.source" value="$" />
<property name="xml.dest" value="$" />
<property name="xml.xpath" value="application/description/text()" />
<property name="xml.replace.text" value="$" />
</ant>
</target>
]]>
To use the xmltask.attr.value target, you need to set the properties described in the Common Build Targets document.
<![CDATA[
<target name="xmltask.attr.value">
<ant antfile="$" target="xmltask.attr.value">
<property name="xml.source" value="$" />
<property name="xml.dest" value="$" />
<property name="xml.xpath" value="wsdl:definitions/wsdl:service/wsdl:port/soap:address[@location]" />
<property name="xml.attr" value="location" />
<property name="xml.value" value="$" />
</ant>
</target>
]]>
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