Question

How to replace three calls to ‘myMacro’:

<myMacro value='value 1'/> <myMacro value='value 2'/> <myMacro value='value 3'/> 

By only one call who would use a list of three elements: value 1, value 2, value 3

Answer 1

You could make use of the For task from the 3rd party Ant-Contribs tasks. It makes use of the Ant MacroDef task, so combining this with your earlier question you could replace your macro and three macro calls with:

<for list='1,2,3' param='value'>     <sequential>         <exec executable='cmd'>             <arg value='/c'/>             <arg value='value @{value}'/>         </exec>     </sequential> </for>