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I am trying to build another bespoke netbeans(6.5) build.xml.

All I want to do is get a context paramater value from the web.xml during the build process.

I have a partial solution in that I can get all context parameter values thus :-

this is the context param section in my web.xml

<context-param>
        <description>the version displayed in the login page</description>
        <param-name>appVersion</param-name>
        <param-value>1.0.1</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <description>The licence displayed in the login page.</description>
        <param-name>licence_text</param-name>
        <param-value>licence blurb goes here</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <description>Writes out debug messages if true and prevents emailing</description>
        <param-name>debug</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>

I am trying to get the version number which is stored as a context parameter to use elsewhere in the build.xml file, this is a snippet of what I have in the build.xml :-

<!-- load web.xml -->
<xmlproperty file="web/WEB-INF/web.xml" 
semanticAttributes="true" collapseAttributes="true" validate="false"  />

<!-- set a property for later use -->
<property name="appVersion"  
value="${web-app.context-param.param-value}"  />

This gives me a comma separated string of all the context parameter values:-
1.0.1,licence blurb goes here,true

What I cant figure out is how to get an individual context parameter value, I am sure it can be done without having to parse the csv string.

Any pointers anyone, this is driving me nuts !

Neil