diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/lib/avalon-excalibur.jar b/proposal/myrmidon/lib/avalon-excalibur.jar
index f40715f86..29c3af6a4 100644
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diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/lib/logkit.jar b/proposal/myrmidon/lib/logkit.jar
index a0b53e9b0..13e43d1bc 100644
Binary files a/proposal/myrmidon/lib/logkit.jar and b/proposal/myrmidon/lib/logkit.jar differ
diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java
index 11ddcb385..988086138 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java
@@ -95,6 +95,17 @@ public interface TaskContext
     void setProperty( String name, Object value, ScopeEnum scope )
         throws TaskException;
 
+    /**
+     * Create a Child Context.
+     * This allows separate hierarchly contexts to be easily constructed.
+     *
+     * @param name the name of sub-context
+     * @return the created TaskContext
+     * @exception TaskException if an error occurs
+     */
+    //TaskContext createSubContext( String name )
+    //throws TaskException;
+
     /**
      * Safe wrapper class for Scope enums.
      */
diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/components/builder/ATIProjectBuilder.java b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/components/builder/ATIProjectBuilder.java
index bf4a2edbb..878c7bc40 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/components/builder/ATIProjectBuilder.java
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/components/builder/ATIProjectBuilder.java
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ public class ATIProjectBuilder
 
             final SAXResult result = new SAXResult( handler );
             transformer.transform( new StreamSource( sourceID.toString() ), result );
+            //transformer.transform( new StreamSource( sourceID.toString() ), 
+            //new StreamResult( System.out ) );
         }        
     }
 
diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/make/template-simple.ati b/proposal/myrmidon/src/make/template-simple.ati
index e458488c9..ba5246101 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/make/template-simple.ati
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/make/template-simple.ati
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 <project default="main" basedir=".">
 
   <target name="main">
+    <property name="year" value="2000"/>
+
     <echo message="Before template"/>
     <echo-template msg="Template echo 1!" />
     <echo-template msg="Template echo 2!" />
diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/make/template-simple.xsl b/proposal/myrmidon/src/make/template-simple.xsl
index c7b1639e6..4c1e87977 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/make/template-simple.xsl
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/make/template-simple.xsl
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <echo message="This is an example of how to use a template to expand" />
     <echo message="a single element into a list of tasks to do. In this" />
     <echo message="example it is largely a case of echoing an attribute" />
-    <echo message="ie. msg='{@msg}'" />
+    <echo message="ie. msg='{@msg}' and embeddding an ant variable ${{year}}" />
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="@*|node()">