Parse HTML using with an Ant Script

Question

I need to retrieve some values from an HTML file. I need to use Ant so I can use these values in other parts of my script.

Can this even be achieved in Ant?

Answer 1

Take a look at the (http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/xmlproperty.html) task and see if it'll work for you. It's pretty straight forward:

After all, HTML is just a subset of XML. I've used it before to do this very task. No need to write your own task or script.