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Apache Ant
'Apache Ant' ( or simply Ant) is an XML-based build scripting language used heavily by the Open Source community. Ant automates tasks such as compiling source code, building deployment packages and automatically checking dependencies of what items need to be updated in a build set.

Background
This wikibook was based on a presentation created by Dan McCreary for the Minnesota Java Open Source User Group. Dan felt strongly that a gentle introduction to Ant was necessary for new people to easily learn Ant. The existing Ant documentation, although useful for advanced Ant users, did not meet the needs of most beginners. For example in the Apache documentation, advanced concepts such as token filters were placed directly in the introduction for beginners. The introductory material also did not contain full examples with complete sample build files and expected output. Something else was needed. At the same time the introductory material assumed that the reader was familiar with XML. This material covers some of the material you need to know about XML to build Ant scripts.

This Wikibook is also designed to work with other XML-related programming wikibooks such as XML Schema and XForms.


 * Introduction
 * Background
 * Adoption
 * XML Summary


 * Getting Started
 * Getting Started
 * Installation
 * Testing
 * Hello World


 * Core Concepts
 * Core Concepts
 * Terminology
 * Build File Structure
 * Property
 * Depends
 * Fileset


 * Best Practices
 * Best Practices
 * Local Property Files
 * Local File Systems
 * Standard Targets


 * XML
 * XML
 * XMLwellformed
 * XMLvalidate
 * XSLT
 * Running Saxon
 * Passing Parameters to XSLT
 * XQuery
 * Converting Excel to XML
 * Cleaning up HTML
 * Converting PDF to XML
 * Store XML data
 * Reindex a Collection
 * Execute an XQuery
 * Creating a .xar file


 * References
 * References