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allow property expansion in <filterset> property values

           Summary: allow property expansion in <filterset> property values
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.5Beta1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core tasks
        AssignedTo: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ljb@itouchlabs.com


i currently have one set of properties for my build system, and these are 
loaded using <property file="xxx.properties"/>. they contain embedded 
references to other properties using ${} syntax. this works fine in general use 
in my build file, however, when i want to use these same properties for a 
filtercopy, the ${} variables are not expanded in the output files.

i can't do a <replace> since i may not know which properties were used as 
@name@ tokens in the file, and i don't want to hardcode the list of properties 
to replace.

i don't see how the <expandproperties> feature of <filterchain> of 1.5 helps me 
in this case, so i would request that the ability be added to the <filterset> 
and the <replace> task to expand the values of properties contained in the 
property files they load.

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