How to concatenate paths returned from `fileset` into the XML file?

Question

I'm trying to concatenate an unknown number of HTML files into one XML file. That's no problem with:

<concat destfile="${temp.dir}/file.xml" encoding="UTF-8" outputencoding="UTF-8">
    <fileset dir="${html.dir}" includes="**/*.html" />
</concat>

Now what I would like to do is, for each file of the fileset, insert its path into the concatenated file.

Example

I have the following HTML files in C:\whatever\sources:

A.html
B.html

In the result XML file, I'd like to get:

  <allfiles>
   <html url="C:\whatever\sources\A.html>...content of A.html...</html>
   <html url="C:\whatever\sources\B.html>...content of B.html...</html>
  </allfiles>

Is there a way to do that simply without reinventing the wheel and if possible without using ant-contrib?

See the answer from Martin Clayton in [Getting file name inside Ant copy task filter](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4376795/getting-file-name-inside-ant-copy-task-filter/4377913#4377913). Although that answer uses ``, a `` can also be used with ``. — Chad Nouis, Sep 29 '15 at 14:23
Thanks for the info, seems impossible without using ant-contrib then? mmh :( — Flag, Sep 29 '15 at 14:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '18 at 23:22

As mentioned, you can use a scriptfilter inside filterchain task to run Javascript inside your Ant build.

For example:

<concat destfile="${temp.dir}/file.xml" encoding="UTF-8" outputencoding="UTF-8">
    <fileset dir="${html.dir}" includes="**/*.html" id="my-files"/>
    <filterchain>
        <tokenfilter>
            <filetokenizer />
                 <scriptfilter language="javascript" byline="false"><![CDATA[
                     content = self.getToken();
                     // Modify content of token.
                     //content=content.replaceAll("(?s)/\\*.*?\\*/","");
                     self.setToken(content);
            ]]></scriptfilter>
        </tokenfilter>
        <striplinecomments>
            <comment value="//"/>
        </striplinecomments>
        <striplinebreaks/>
    </filterchain>
</concat>

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How to concatenate paths returned from `fileset` into the XML file?

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