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Examples

    <loadfile property="message"
      srcFile="message.txt"/>
Load file message.txt into property "message"; an <echo> can print this.
    <loadfile property="encoded-file"
      srcFile="loadfile.xml"
      encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
Load a file using the latin-1 encoding
    <loadfile
      property="optional.value"
      srcFile="optional.txt"
      failonerror="false"/>
Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though)
    <loadfile
      property="mail.recipients"
      srcFile="recipientlist.txt">
      <filterchain>
        <striplinebreaks/>
      </filterchain>
    </loadfile>
Load a property which can be used as a parameter for another task (in this case mail), merging lines to ensure this happens.
    <loadfile
      property="system.configuration.xml"
      srcFile="configuration.xml">
        <expandproperties/>
    </loadfile>
Load an XML file into a property, expanding all properties declared in the file in the process.



Andrew Marlow 2003-07-08