Ant xmlproperty task. What happens when there is more than one tag with the same name?

Question

I am trying to follow a large ant buildfile that I have been given, and I am having trouble understanding the functionality of xmlproperty in this case. Consider this xml fi

Answer 1

When multiple elements have the same name, creates a property with comma-separated values:

    
        

        ${PREFIX.main.tagList.tag.file}
    

The result:

run:
     [echo] file1,file2

To process the comma-separated values, consider using the task from the third-party Ant-Contrib library:

    
    
        

        
            
                @{file}
            
        
    

The result:

run:
     [echo] file1
     [echo] file2