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<title>XmlProperty Task</title>
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<h2><a name="xmlproperty">XmlProperty</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
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Loads property values from a valid xml file.
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<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">file</td>
<td valign="top">The XML file to parse.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">prefix</td>
<td valign="top">The prefix to prepend to each property</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">keepRoot</td>
<td valign="top">If false, it doesn't include the xml root tag as a first
value in the property name.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No, default is <i>true</i>.</td>
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<td valign="top">validate</td>
<td valign="top">If true, it enables validation.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No, default is <i>false</i>.</td>
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<td valign="top">collapseAttributes</td>
<td valign="top">If true, it treats attributes as nested elements.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No, default is <i>false</i>.</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre> <xmlproperty file="somefile.xml" /></pre>
<p>Load contents of somefile.xml as Ant properties.</p>
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<root-tag myattr="true">
<inner-tag someattr="val">Text</inner-tag>
<a2><a3><a4>false</a4></a3></a2>
</root-tag>
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<p>This is an example xml file.</p>
<pre> root-tag(myattr)=true
root-tag.inner-tag=Text
root-tag.inner-tag(someattr)=val
root-tag.a2.a3.a4=false
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<p>These are the properties loaded by this task from the previous example file.</p>
<pre> <xmlproperty file="somefile.xml" collapseAttributes="true" /></pre>
<p>Load contents of somefile.xml as Ant properties collapsing attributes as nodes.</p>
<pre> root-tag.myattr=true
root-tag.inner-tag=Text
root-tag.inner-tag.someatt=val
root-tag.a2.a3.a4=false
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<p>These are the properties loaded by this task from the previous example file, with
attribute collapsing true.</p>
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