ANT - replace xml declaration

Question

I have an XML document composed of several other XML documents appended to it. As a result, there are several XML declarations within the document which prevent my XSLT from parsing it correctly. I am trying to remove the declarations from the document using the ant replace and replaceregexp tasks, but they do nothing to the file. This is what I have so far.

<replaceregexp file="${cppUnit.file}" >
    <regexp pattern="&lt;?xml * ?&gt;" />
    <substitution expression="" />
</replaceregexp>

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '12 at 14:35

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Try this instead:

<replaceregexp file="${cppUnit.file}" match="&lt;\?xml.*\?&gt;"
     replace="" byline="true"/>

answered Jun 18 '12 at 14:35

ewan.chalmers

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Excellent, thanks. I'm new to ant so I didn't know how to escape those question marks. – zalpha314 Jun 18 '12 at 14:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 18 '12 at 14:35

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ok. This worked.

<regexp pattern="..?xml version=.1.0. encoding='ISO-8859-1' standalone='yes' ?..." />

answered Jun 18 '12 at 14:35

zalpha314

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ANT - replace xml declaration

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