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Can you use Ant to build / modify XML files?

I am new to ant and am looking at tasks. I am trying to create an xml file. Do I need to access an external process or is there an ant way to do this? It can be as simple as sending a line to a txt file and saving it as .xml. Is it possible?

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The correct answer depends on what you are actually trying to do.

You can create a tiny XML document using the echo task and replacing the arguments, but this is difficult to handle very quickly.

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You could do this, although it seems to me that it is more likely that you would like a script in advance, or something that you could call from Ant.

Task:

<echo file="my.xml"><!--put escaped xml here--></echo>

This, of course, will be tedious because everything needs to be avoided, but you can do it.

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