[nant-dev] Adding XML support to <foreach> or new task

[Matthew M. <ma...@ac...>]

I'm looking at adding XML iteration support for either the <foreach> 
task or perhaps a new, yet-unnamed task.  I would like to be able to 
iterate over a file based on an XPath query, picking up each matching 
element or attribute in turn.  <foreach> is the easiest place to add it, 
but it's not really a clean solution.

A better way would be to model a new <xmlforeach> task on the existing 
xmlpeek/xmlpoke tasks like so:

<xmlforeach file="foo.xml" xpath="/configuration/blahelement">
	<property name="someattribute" value="@attribute" />
	<property name="someinnertext" value="text()" />
	<do>
		<echo>${someattribute}, ${someinnertext}</echo>
	</do>
</xmlforeach>

How does this sound?

Matt.