Read repetitive tags as properties from an XML file

[Simon Baker <si...@clearmoney.com>]

Problem:
Retrieve a number of properties from a given XML file.
Some tags are repeated in the XML file, for instance:
<b>
  <a> one </a>
  <a> two </a>
  <a> three </a>
</b>
The property 'b.a' in ant should be set to 'one,two,three'

Known solutions:
1. With xsl I have managed to convert the xml file to property file and then
simple load the property file. This is not ideal.
2. Use XMLProperty, I however could not get it to handle repetitive tags as
in the above example.
3. Write my own ant command, to retrieve repetitive tags.

Any better ideas?


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Re: Read repetitive tags as properties from an XML file

[Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>]

Simon Baker wrote:
> Problem:
> Retrieve a number of properties from a given XML file.
> Some tags are repeated in the XML file, for instance:
> <b>
>   <a> one </a>
>   <a> two </a>
>   <a> three </a>
> </b>
> The property 'b.a' in ant should be set to 'one,two,three'
> 
> Known solutions:
> 1. With xsl I have managed to convert the xml file to property file and then
> simple load the property file. This is not ideal.
> 2. Use XMLProperty, I however could not get it to handle repetitive tags as
> in the above example.
> 3. Write my own ant command, to retrieve repetitive tags.
> 
> Any better ideas?

Added a patch to do as you ask :-)

http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12045

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