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+" Vim syntax file
+" Language:	ANT build file (xml)
+" Maintainer:	Johannes Zellner <johannes@zellner.org>
+" Last Change:	Tue Apr 27 13:05:59 CEST 2004
+" Filenames:	build.xml
+" $Id$
+
+" Quit when a syntax file was already loaded
+if exists("b:current_syntax")
+    finish
+endif
+
+let s:ant_cpo_save = &cpo
+set cpo&vim
+
+runtime! syntax/xml.vim
+
+syn case ignore
+
+if !exists('*AntSyntaxScript')
+    fun AntSyntaxScript(tagname, synfilename)
+	unlet b:current_syntax
+	let s:include = expand("<sfile>:p:h").'/'.a:synfilename
+	if filereadable(s:include)
+	    exe 'syn include @ant'.a:tagname.' '.s:include
+	else
+	    exe 'syn include @ant'.a:tagname." $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/".a:synfilename
+	endif
+
+	exe 'syn region ant'.a:tagname
+		    \." start=#<script[^>]\\{-}language\\s*=\\s*['\"]".a:tagname."['\"]\\(>\\|[^>]*[^/>]>\\)#"
+		    \.' end=#</script>#'
+		    \.' fold'
+		    \.' contains=@ant'.a:tagname.',xmlCdataStart,xmlCdataEnd,xmlTag,xmlEndTag'
+		    \.' keepend'
+	exe 'syn cluster xmlRegionHook add=ant'.a:tagname
+    endfun
+endif
+
+" TODO: add more script languages here ?
+call AntSyntaxScript('javascript', 'javascript.vim')
+call AntSyntaxScript('jpython', 'python.vim')
+
+
+syn cluster xmlTagHook add=antElement
+
+syn keyword antElement display WsdlToDotnet addfiles and ant antcall antstructure apply archives arg argument
+syn keyword antElement display assertions attrib attribute available basename bcc blgenclient bootclasspath
+syn keyword antElement display borland bottom buildnumber buildpath buildpathelement bunzip2 bzip2 cab
+syn keyword antElement display catalogpath cc cccheckin cccheckout cclock ccmcheckin ccmcheckintask ccmcheckout
+syn keyword antElement display ccmcreatetask ccmkattr ccmkbl ccmkdir ccmkelem ccmklabel ccmklbtype
+syn keyword antElement display ccmreconfigure ccrmtype ccuncheckout ccunlock ccupdate checksum chgrp chmod
+syn keyword antElement display chown classconstants classes classfileset classpath commandline comment
+syn keyword antElement display compilerarg compilerclasspath concat concatfilter condition copy copydir
+syn keyword antElement display copyfile coveragepath csc custom cvs cvschangelog cvspass cvstagdiff cvsversion
+syn keyword antElement display daemons date defaultexcludes define delete deletecharacters deltree depend
+syn keyword antElement display depends dependset depth description different dirname dirset disable dname
+syn keyword antElement display doclet doctitle dtd ear echo echoproperties ejbjar element enable entity entry
+syn keyword antElement display env equals escapeunicode exclude excludepackage excludesfile exec execon
+syn keyword antElement display existing expandproperties extdirs extension extensionSet extensionset factory
+syn keyword antElement display fail filelist filename filepath fileset filesmatch filetokenizer filter
+syn keyword antElement display filterchain filterreader filters filterset filtersfile fixcrlf footer format
+syn keyword antElement display from ftp generic genkey get gjdoc grant group gunzip gzip header headfilter http
+syn keyword antElement display ignoreblank ilasm ildasm import importtypelib include includesfile input iplanet
+syn keyword antElement display iplanet-ejbc isfalse isreference isset istrue jar jarlib-available
+syn keyword antElement display jarlib-manifest jarlib-resolve java javac javacc javadoc javadoc2 jboss jdepend
+syn keyword antElement display jjdoc jjtree jlink jonas jpcoverage jpcovmerge jpcovreport jsharpc jspc
+syn keyword antElement display junitreport jvmarg lib libfileset linetokenizer link loadfile loadproperties
+syn keyword antElement display location macrodef mail majority manifest map mapper marker mergefiles message
+syn keyword antElement display metainf method mimemail mkdir mmetrics modified move mparse none not options or
+syn keyword antElement display os outputproperty package packageset parallel param patch path pathconvert
+syn keyword antElement display pathelement patternset permissions prefixlines present presetdef project
+syn keyword antElement display property propertyfile propertyref propertyset pvcs pvcsproject record reference
+syn keyword antElement display regexp rename renameext replace replacefilter replaceregex replaceregexp
+syn keyword antElement display replacestring replacetoken replacetokens replacevalue replyto report resource
+syn keyword antElement display revoke rmic root rootfileset rpm scp section selector sequential serverdeploy
+syn keyword antElement display setproxy signjar size sleep socket soscheckin soscheckout sosget soslabel source
+syn keyword antElement display sourcepath sql src srcfile srcfilelist srcfiles srcfileset sshexec stcheckin
+syn keyword antElement display stcheckout stlabel stlist stringtokenizer stripjavacomments striplinebreaks
+syn keyword antElement display striplinecomments style subant substitution support symlink sync sysproperty
+syn keyword antElement display syspropertyset tabstospaces tag taglet tailfilter tar tarfileset target
+syn keyword antElement display targetfile targetfilelist targetfileset taskdef tempfile test testlet text title
+syn keyword antElement display to token tokenfilter touch transaction translate triggers trim tstamp type
+syn keyword antElement display typedef unjar untar unwar unzip uptodate url user vbc vssadd vsscheckin
+syn keyword antElement display vsscheckout vsscp vsscreate vssget vsshistory vsslabel waitfor war wasclasspath
+syn keyword antElement display webapp webinf weblogic weblogictoplink websphere whichresource wlclasspath
+syn keyword antElement display wljspc wsdltodotnet xmlcatalog xmlproperty xmlvalidate xslt zip zipfileset
+syn keyword antElement display zipgroupfileset
+
+hi def link antElement Statement
+
+let b:current_syntax = "ant"
+
+let &cpo = s:ant_cpo_save
+unlet s:ant_cpo_save
+
+" vim: ts=8