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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Brian Agnew <br...@yahoo.com> on 2002/04/27 13:05:09 UTC

XML manipulation task

Hello,

I've built a simple Ant task to handle XML manipulation. Since what I've needed
to do didn't require the complexity of XSLT, this task simply requires you to
specify the XML node you want to add/remove/append to, or change an attribute
on.

eg.

<xmltask source="input.xml" dest="output.xml report="true"">
  <replace path="/web/servlet/context/config/text()" withFile="config1.xml"/>
  <insert path="/web/security/" file="uat.security.xml"/>
  <remove path="/web/servlet/context/config/"/>
</xmltask>

You use XPath descriptors to specify the nodes. More examples, and the GPL
download are available at http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask.html.
Tested with JDK 1.3/1.4 and Ant 1.4.

Brian

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OOPS Consultancy Ltd         brian@oopsconsultancy.com
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