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v0.85-rc1 |
[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
Extracts text from an XML file at the location specified by an XPath expression.
If the XPath expression specifies multiple nodes the node index is used to determine which of the nodes' text is returned.
Attribute | Type | Description | Required |
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file | file | The name of the file that contains the XML document that is going to be peeked at. | True |
property | string | The property that receives the text representation of the XML inside the node returned from the XPath expression. | True |
xpath | string | The XPath expression used to select which node to read. | True |
nodeindex | int | The index of the node that gets its text returned when the query returns multiple nodes. | False |
failonerror | bool | Determines if task failure stops the build, or is just reported. The default is true. | False |
if | bool | If true then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is true. | False |
unless | bool | Opposite of if . If false then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is false. |
False |
verbose | bool | Determines whether the task should report detailed build log messages. The default is false. | False |
Contains a collection of XmlNamespace elements.
The example provided assumes that the following XML file (App.config) exists in the current build directory.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration xmlns="http://www.gordic.cz/shared/project-config/v_1.0.0.0"> <appSettings> <add key="server" value="testhost.somecompany.com" /> </appSettings> </configuration>
The example will read the server value from the above configuration file.
<xmlpeek file="App.config" xpath="/x:configuration/x:appSettings/x:add[@key = 'server']/@value" property="configuration.server"> <namespaces> <namespace prefix="x" uri="http://www.gordic.cz/shared/project-config/v_1.0.0.0" /> </namespaces> </xmlpeek>