ant task doesn't find included xml files

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By: Axel Hallez - ahallez

ant task doesn't find included xml files

2004-07-10 11:35

Hello all,

 

I'm having trouble configuring the jasperreports ant task. The problem is as follows.

 

I have some general xml files that contain common parts for all the reports I have (eg. page headers & footers). These files are included in the reports through like in this example:

 

<!DOCTYPE jasperReport PUBLIC "//JasperReports//DTD Report Design//EN" "http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/dtds/jasperreport.dtd" [

<!ENTITY pageheader SYSTEM "be/gymfed/PageHeader.xml">

<!ENTITY pagefooter SYSTEM "be/gymfed/PageFooter.xml">

]>

 

<jasperReport

name="ParticipantsReport"

columnCount="1"

printOrder="Vertical"

pageWidth="595"

pageHeight="842"

columnWidth="535"

columnSpacing="0"

leftMargin="30"

rightMargin="30"

topMargin="20"

bottomMargin="20"

isTitleNewPage="false"

isSummaryNewPage="false"

scriptletClass="be.scoreexpress.ui.report.RankingScriptlet" >

 

&pageheader;

 

--> report detail section

 

&pagefooter;

 

</jasperReport>

 

When I try to compile the reports with the ant task, I get an error saying that the included files could not be found.

This error is caused by the fact that the base dir used by the xml parser is not the same as the srcdir I use to compile the reports.

Is there some way to tweak this?

 

Thanks in advance,

Axel Hallez