how to use if tag inside my xml file

[harish495]

Hi All,

From the attached file ruleset.xml, I would like to use Ant "<if>" before each "<rule>" .. How do I achiev it?

waiting for your answers..


Regards,
Harishwar

[reedy837]

According to the ruleset schema (http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd), the if element is not permitted.
However, the if element/statement is permitted within ANT (http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/if.html), so my assumption is that with ANT you would need to wrap the processing of your rulesets (http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ant-task.html) with the if elements/statements, not each individual rule.
At least from what I can see with the ruleset schema, it is not permitted, although the schema file is not self documented...