Assign part of target to variable for reuse 1

[tcmartin24]

Is there a way to assign part of a target's definition to a variable so it can be reused in other targets? Something like this (but this doesn't work):
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<property name="mappings">
<otherMapping name="resource" value="com.blah.File"/>
</property>

<target name="myTarget">
<hibernatecfg blah="blah" foo="bar">
${mappings}
</hibernatecfg>
</target>
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So the text defined in the property "mappings" gets placed where I have the '${mappings}' variable. Notice my use of the <property> element doesn't specify a 'value' attribute because I need the value to be possibly several lines containing quotes and things. Is there some element like 'property' that'll let me do this?

Thanks

 

[timw]

Do you know about the 'antCall' task which calls one target from another? You'd put the common stuff in one target and use it as you need from others.

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/antcall.html

Tim

 

[tcmartin24]

Thanks Tim. I became more familiar with that task after posting this message. I ended up using the macrodef task to define all my common stuff and it lets me pass in variables and element place-holders.

Thanks for the response,
Terry