Manipulating XML files using ant

[Alex English]

Hi All,

I'm using cactus to test an enterprise application. I need to have a test EAR (with the cactus tests as a separate web app) and a real EAR (with no cactus) for deployment onto the production server.

I would like to be slick about this, and use the same application.xml file for both, but I need to have ant inject an extra <module> tag into the application.xml to hold the tests. Are there any ant tasks that can deal with xml files (or deployment descriptors in general) in a nice way?

I suppose I could write my own ant task and just use SAXP or something like that, but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel.

[Tim Holloway]

Yes, the XSLT Ant function can modify XML files.

Beyond that, I'm unclear if what you want is the way to do it, but I'm not up to speed in that area at the moment.