Hello. I'm an XML newbie and trying to perform some simple iteration.
I am trying to write an Ant task that will perform a series of steps on
different directories. I can't seem to find a way to execute a simple
'for' or 'while' loop in XML. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

aviator2004 schrieb:

Hello. I'm an XML newbie and trying to perform some simple iteration.
I am trying to write an Ant task that will perform a series of steps on
different directories. I can't seem to find a way to execute a simple
'for' or 'while' loop in XML. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

XML itself is not a programming language. However there may be XML-based
languages that have elements that are interpreted as 'for' or 'while' loops.
--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)

Johannes Koch wrote:

XML itself is not a programming language. However there may be XML-based
languages that have elements that are interpreted as 'for' or 'while'
loops.

One example of an XML-based programming language would be XSLT. Another
would be the Bean Markup Language (BML).

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

The question isn't how to write iteration in XML, but how to write it in
Ant's XML-based language. Check the Ant specs.

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

aviator2004 wrote:

I am trying to write an Ant task that will perform a series of steps on
different directories.

If you _must_ iterate in Ant, then there are common Ant extension tasks
(but not core Ant) that will do this. However iteration isn't seen as
an appropriate task for Ant.

Personally I'd not do this in Ant, I'd use a scripting language (e.g.
Python) instead. Try asking in comp.lang.java.softwaretools too.

aviator2004 wrote:

Hello. I'm an XML newbie and trying to perform some simple iteration.
I am trying to write an Ant task that will perform a series of steps on
different directories. I can't seem to find a way to execute a simple
'for' or 'while' loop in XML. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

If you would still like to use here are task that Ant project has been
reluctant to adopt.
For each iteration has been a debate and Ant does not see it as fit for
use in Ant Scripts
as it is pointed in one of the responses. Here is one project that has
for each loops too..

http://antxtras.sourceforge.net/