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Would it be possible to change the type of <target>-nodes in <ide-action>- and <action>-nodes from "xsd:token" to "substitutable-text"? Background: i'm working on a project which has a big monolithic build-file where builds for different environments/componets are declared by ant-targets, not by build-properties (e.g. "<target name="<environ>.<component>.<build-action>"> in the ant-buildfile). While this seems to be rather "un-clever" to say the least, i'm stuck with it. If the value of the <target>-nodes in project.xml were "substitutable-text" I could create a single project-template which gets parameterized for the different environments by a properties-file. I'm aware that enhancing the netbeans-project-system for my personal needs might get a very high priority ;-); so perhaps another reason to make this change this might be that mixing "substitutable-text" and "xsd:-token"-types is suprising if do not know the freeforn-schemas by heart (of course this is an advanced feature, so you can expect us to look them up, after all) ;-)
Perhaps you could have in your build.xml: <target name="metatarget"> <antcall target="${target}"/> </> and in your project.xml, use <target>metatarget</> <property name="target">${environ}.${component}</> ?
@jglick: of course, thanks! did not think about that. this might be a change i could add to the build-file (which is controlled by a 3rd party). For now i use xml-entities and a custom dtd to define the properties needed for <target>-nodes; your solution is much more elegant, though.
Changing the default component owner to tzezula.
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