Ant DOM [Was: access to task description?]

[Ernst de Haan <er...@nl.euro.net>]

> is there a way to access the target description, maybe like this?
>
>   <target name="build" description="Compiles main classes"
>           depends="prepare">
>     <echo message="${description}" />

Just thinking, perhaps a Document Object Model would be nice for Ant :-) Then 
you could have properties like:

   ant.project --> The current project
   ant.project.name --> The name of the current project
   ant.project.tasks --> All tasks in the current project
   ant.currenttask --> The current task
   ant.currenttask.name --> The name of the current task
   ant.currenttask.description --> The description of the current task
   :

This would be similar to the approach used in HTML (JavaScript/VBscript)
Some of these properties are currently already available as 'magic 
properties'.


Ernst

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