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Asked: 2026-05-24T17:27:44+00:00

I am using the most excellent ant/bin/complete-ant-cmd.pl for bash completion of ant targets and

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I am using the most excellent ant/bin/complete-ant-cmd.pl for bash completion of ant targets and it caches its results in a file called .ant-targets-build.xml. The problem is, in my eclipse project, eclipse is a little overaggressive validating everything it believes is actually XML (which .ant-targets-build.xml isn’t…its just the raw targets separated by newlines).

How do I get eclipse to relax its restrictions and treat .ant-targets-build.xml as NOT an xml file…just text or something.

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    Project->Properties

    • Check Enable project specific settings.
    • Click ellipsis next to XML Validator

    Project properties

    • Click on Exclude Group
    • Click on Add Rule

    Validation rules

    Follow wizard and create File exclusion.

    One of the most annoying “features” of this dialog is that you cannot edit existing rules. If you make a mistake you will need to delete that rule and recreate it from scratch.

    BTW, in your case it may be preferable to create a global workspace rule ( I usually like to keep special cases with the project ).

    In any case after you finished with rule creation, right-click on a project with warnings and choose Validate. This will clear these warnings

    If you decided to edit validation preferences in project and not in workspace, then add project-name/.setting/org.eclipse.wst.validation.prefs file to source control.

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