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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Green Cap <gr...@hotmail.com> on 2002/11/14 19:47:20 UTC

Why is the generated ANT DTD missing attributes for core tasks?

According to the ANT manual, ANT has a core task called "fail"
Now "fail" has 3 attributes which are
"message", "if", & "unless".

I generate an ANT DTD using
<antstructure output="project.dtd"/>

My question is, Why doesn't the "fail" element contain those 3 attributes in
the project.dtd file?
Instead it contains the following attributes:
id, loops, source, duration

(By the way my computer only has one version of ANT which is 1.5)

<!-----copied from the project.dtd file ---->
<!ELEMENT fail EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST fail
          id ID #IMPLIED
          loops CDATA #IMPLIED
          source CDATA #IMPLIED
          duration CDATA #IMPLIED>


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Re: Why is the generated ANT DTD missing attributes for core tasks?

Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Green Cap <gr...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> <!-----copied from the project.dtd file ---->
> <!ELEMENT fail EMPTY>
> <!ATTLIST fail
>           id ID #IMPLIED
>           loops CDATA #IMPLIED
>           source CDATA #IMPLIED
>           duration CDATA #IMPLIED>

This is the not the DTD for the <fail> task, but for the nested <fail>
element in <sound>.

DTDs just don't give us enough flexibility to describe Ant's syntax
properly.

Stefan

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