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+<title>Ant User Manual</title>
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+<h2><a name="javac">Common Attributes of all Tasks</a></h2>
+<p>All tasks share the following attributes:</p>
+
+<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
+    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
+    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top">id</td>
+    <td valign="top">Unique identifier for this task instance, can be
+       used to reference this task in scripts.</td>
+    <td valign="top">No</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top">taskname</td>
+    <td valign="top">A different name for this task instance - will
+      show up in the logging output.</td>
+    <td valign="top">No</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top">description</td>
+    <td valign="top">Room for your comments</td>
+    <td valign="top">No</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr>
+<p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2000,2001 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
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Attribute	Description	Required
id	Unique identifier for this task instance, can be + used to reference this task in scripts.	No
taskname	A different name for this task instance - will + show up in the logging output.	No
description	Room for your comments	No