Question

Can anybody give me a hint on how to use nested artifact (and artifacts) elements for publishing modules use the ivy ant task. Unfortunately the official documentation does not specify how to use the attributes.
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/use/publish.html

Maybe there is some documentation or some examples that I could not find?
I am aware of the artifact element in ivy.xml files. this is NOT what this question is about.

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Issues using ivy:publish task

The nested “artifact” elements in the publish task are used to identify the location(s) of the artifacts you’ve specified as to be published by your module.

So, for example, let’s say your module publishes two files:

<ivy-module version="2.0">
    <info organisation="someorganisation" module="myapp"/>

    <publications>
        <artifact name="myapp" type="jar"/>
        <artifact name="license" type="txt"/>
    </publications>
    ..

Your publish task might need to source these files from two different locations within the build workspace:

   <ivy:publish resolver="${publish.resolver}" pubrevision="${publish.revision}" status="${publish.status}">
        <artifacts pattern="${build.dir}/[artifact].[ext]"/>
        <artifacts pattern="${src.dir}/licenses/[organisation]/[artifact].[ext]"/>
    </ivy:publish>