[Exist-open] Ant task problems

[Jakob <ja...@jf...>]

Hi,

I'd like to store documents in Exist using an Ant build
file.  Following the example shown here
http://exist-db.org/ant-tasks.html#N1014A

I wrote a test build file (see below).

Now the problems:

*** 1) I had to copy the exist.jar, exist-optional.jar,
and xmldb.jar into my ant/lib directory to no receive
errors about classes not found.  Why doesn't it find these
files in the directories specified?  Yes, they do exist
there.

*** 2) Once I had worked around the first issue, I get the
following error message:

E:\>ant -buildfile buildtest.xml
Buildfile: buildtest.xml

store:

BUILD FAILED
E:\buildtest.xml:23: The <http://exist-db.org/ant:store>
type doesn't support the nested "fileset" element.

Total time: 1 second


Why?  I downloaded the version 1.0b1, so I hoped to be in
sync with the doc.  If "fileset" doesn't work, how else
can I specify the documents to add?

*** 3) It appears from the example as if a database must
be running on a server.  Does it alos work like the
command line client which starts the local database
itself?

*** 4) I am using the "xdb" namespace, as I read that
"xmldb" has been changed to "xdb" because of the XML spec
which doesn't allow a namespace to contain "x", "m", "l"
at the beginning of the namespace string.  Is this
correct?  Does it matter?

Thanks,
Jakob.

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<project basedir="." default="store" name="exist-ant-test">
 <path id="classpath.core">
  <fileset dir="bin/ant/lib">
   <include name="*.jar"/>
  </fileset>
  <fileset dir="bin/eXist-1.0b1/lib/core">
   <include name="*.jar"/>
  </fileset>
  <fileset dir="bin/eXist-1.0b1/lib/optional">
   <include name="*.jar"/>
  </fileset>
  <pathelement path="exist.jar"/>
  <pathelement path="exist-optional.jar"/>
 </path>

 <typedef resource="org/exist/ant/antlib.xml"
  uri="http://exist-db.org/ant">
  <classpath refid="classpath.core"/>
 </typedef>

 <target name="store" xmlns:xdb="http://exist-db.org/ant">
  <xdb:store uri="xdb:exist:///db" initdb="true"
   createcollection="true">
   <fileset dir="data/test/doc"
    includes="*.xml"/>
   </xdb:store>
 </target>
</project>
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