[Pnet-developers] csant build file syntax

[Marcus]

I'm working on a program that processes csant build files, and I'm running 
across some unexpected behavior. I'm not sure whether it's part of csant's 
design or just something that happened.

Specifically, csant allows action-like elements, such as <compile> or <echo> 
are permitted to appear outside of a <target> element. Permitting that 
structure makes representing the build file in C# data structures much more 
difficult. Here's an example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="Build" default="all">
        <target name="all">
                <echo message="Processing target all"/>
        </target>
    <target name="clean">
        <delete file="build.exe"/>
    </target>

        <compile output="build.exe" target="exe" optimize="true" debug="true" >
        <sources>
                <includes name="*.cs" />
                <includes name="Actions/*.cs" />
                <includes name="Logging/*.cs" />
        </sources>
        <sources/>
        <references>
                <file name="System.Xml.dll"/>
        </references>
        <resources/>
</compile>
</project>