Purpose

Extend Ant to support XML inclusions formulated according to the XInclude standard.

Installation

Download the JAR archive
Download Elliotte's XInclude implementation
Add the following JAR archives to Ant's classpath:
- jdom-1.0b9rc.jar
- xercesImpl-2.0.2.jar
- xia.jar
- xincluder.jar
- xmlParserAPIs-2.0.2.jar
Add to following line to your Ant buildfile to create the include task
<taskdef name="include" classname="de.jeckle.AntExtension.XIncludeTask"/>
Installation finished!
Now you can define your own include tasks.

Usage

Define a new Ant task (e.g. named include).
Use the new task whereas the file attributes names the input file containing XInclude elements according to the specification.
The file produced is identified by the tofile attribute.

Attribute	Description	Required

file	XML input file containing XInclude elements	Yes
tofile	XML output file	Yes

Example

<project
    name="myProject"
    default="all"
    basedir=".">
    <taskdef name="include" classname="de.jeckle.AntExtension.XIncludeTask"/>
    ...
    <target name="myTarget1">
        ...
        <include
            file="sourceContainingXIncludeStatements"
            tofile="resultFile"/>
        ...
    </target>
    ...
</project>

Download this example code

License

The implementation is released unter the Lesser GNU Public License.
The used XInclude implementation contains two JAR files from the Apache XML Project (i.e. xercesImpl-2.0.2.jar and xmlParserAPIs-2.0.2.jar), and one JAR file from the JDOM Project (jdom-1.0b9rc.jar).

Tested Versions

Java J2SE v1.4.1_02
xincluder-1.0d11.tar.gz
Ant v1.5.2 (2003-02-28)

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