[MANTTASKS-193] POM properties aren't available as ANT properties contrary to the documentation

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: documentation, pom task
• Environment: ant 1.8.1; maven-ant-tasks-2.1.0; Mac OSX 10.6.4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Knut Forkalsrud
• Created: 09/Jul/10 13:59
• Updated: 06/Jan/16 19:38
• Resolved: 09/Jul/10 14:35

Description

In the documentation for the "pom" tasks at http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/examples/pom.html
there's a section "Accessing POM information" with a very simple example that I can't get to work.
Attached is my build.xml and pom.xml which should match the example. I expected the placeholder
${mypom.version} to be replaced with the version number from the pom ("0.6"), but instead I see
the placeholder. I also tried with ${mypom.project.version} with the same result.

The output from "ant":

Buildfile: /Users/knut/build.xml

propdemo:
[echo] The version is ${mypom.version}

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second

If I instead use the ANT construct <xmlproperty file="pom.xml" prefix="maven"/>
I get the properties, but that's not the same thing.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MANTTASKS-178 artifact:pom task not working with Ant 1.8.0