Question

I would like to generate a file from an intermixed content of inline code snippets and contents of other files. Something like:

<target name="generate-js-function">
    <concat destfile="mycode.js">
        <header trimleading="yes">
            // begin auto generated
            var create = function() {
                function createHtmlSnippet1() {
        </header>

        <fileset file="snippet1.js"/>

        <header>
                }
        </header>

        <header trimleading="yes">
            // begin auto generated
            var create = function() {
                function createHtmlSnippet2() {
        </header>

        <fileset file="snippet2.js"/>

        <header>
                }
        </header>

                return '' + createHtmlSnippet1() + createHtmlSnippet2();

            }
            // end auto generated
        </header>
    </concat>
</target>

AFAIK, there can be only one header / footer, so what’s the proper way to do it?

Update: if anything in the question isn’t clear – please ask – I’ll clarify happily.

Answer 1

For the inline snippets you can use the string resource:

<concat destfile="mycode.js">
  <string>
    // begin auto generated
    var create = function() {
            function createHtmlSnippet1() {
  </string>

  <fileset file="snippet1.js"/>

  <string>
    }
  </string>

  ...

</concat>

The only downside is that it doesn’t support the trimleading attribute, but it will allow you to have the code inline in your build file.