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• input: the XML installation file. The installation can be specified as an external file, or embedded using a config child element.
• output: the output jar installer file
• installerType: (optional), possible values: standard or web. If web, the <webdir> attribute must be specified in the input file. Used to force creation of a standard installer when the <webdir> attribute has been used.

• inheritAll: (optional, boolean). If true all properties defined in the ant build process are transmitted to izpack parser for substitution. 

• baseDir: the base directory to resolve the relative paths
• izPackDir: the IzPack home directory (the target directory when executing the izpack-dist.jar)
• mkdirs: whether to automatically create the parent directories of the installer jar to be built.
• inheritAll: If true, pass all Ant properties to IzPack. Defaults to false.
• compression: The type of compression to set for pack compression.
• compressionLevel: The compression level if compression is set to true.

Nested elements:

• <config>
  Used for embedding the contents of install.xml as CDATA directly to the build file (see the example in the section below) 
• <property>
  Add a property to the build visible only to the IzPack task. The Syntax is the same like for defining properties in Ant.
• <propertyset>
  Add a property set to the build visible only to the IzPack task. The Syntax is the same like for defining a propertyset in Ant. 

Here is how the Ant build file may look like:

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It builds an executable installer setup.jar in the working directory.

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contents as CDATA Embedding

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contents as CDATA

Embedding the installation file contents

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as CDATA

Instead of using the 'input' attribute to specify an external installation document, you can embed the installation config as a child of the IzPack task using a config child element with a CDATA section. For example:

<property name="jboss.home.url" value="http://www.jboss.com/" />

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<!-- Call IzPack with an embedded install using the config element -->

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<IzPack output="${dist.dir}/IzPack-install.jar"

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        installerType="standard"

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        basedir="${dist.dir}"

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        inheritAll="true"

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        IzPackDir="${dist.dir}/">

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        <config><![CDATA[

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<installation version="1.0">

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   <info>
      <appname>JBossAS</appname>
      <appversion>4.0.2</appversion>
      <appsubpath>jboss-4.0.

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2</appsubpath>

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      <authors>
         <author name="JBoss Inc." email="sales@jboss.com"/>

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      </authors>

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      <url>@{jboss.home.url}</url>

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      <javaversion>1.4</javaversion>
   </info>

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        ]]></config>

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</IzPack>

Property references of the form

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