Re: [Xmltask-users] Class not found error when trying to use xmltask in Ant (Newbie question)

[David C. <dco...@no...>]

Is the xmltask JAR in your classpath?

I did this as follows:

<taskdef name="xmltask" classname="com.oopsconsultancy.xmltask.ant.XmlTask" classpath="${buildtools}/xmltask.jar"/>

>>> On 18.03.2010 at 17:34, in message <C7C7EA78.3C5A8%rt...@li...>, Rob
Tanner <rt...@li...> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I*m just starting to experiment with xmltask to see if it will solve a
> problem for me.  At this point all I*ve done is add the taskdef to my
> build.xml file in Eclipse and make sure that Ant knows where to find it.
> 
>     <taskdef name="xmltask"
> classname="com.oopsconsultancy.xmltask.ant.XmlTask"/>
> 
> That*s all I*ve done at this point and then I attempted to run the script.
> Right now all it*s doing is copying a directory and I wanted to make sure it
> continued to do so error free.  Instead I got this error:
> 
> Build.xml:12: taskdef A class needed by class
> com.oopsconsultancy.xmltask.ant.XmlTask cannot be found:
> org/apache/tools/ant/Task