[ant-contrib - Help] unable to get it working

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By: rtmo

hi,
I have ant 1.6.5 and I downloaded ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar in the ant\lib directory.But
still whewnever i run a build.xml with this sample code,I get this error
Could not create task or type of type: for.
my build.xml is

<project name="My Application" default="compile" basedir="." >
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties">
<classpath> 
<pathelement location="anthome/lib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar" /> 
</classpath> 
</taskdef>
<echo message="The first five letters of the alphabet are:"/>
<target name ="test" description ="testing this">
<for list="a,b" param="letter">
    <echo>Letter @{letter}</echo>
</for>
</target>
</project>

any help would be greatly appreciated
I have ant_home enviroment variable and the classapth points to ant\lib\bin
and the path variable too.
pls fgive me inputs as to how to get this wrokign

thanks

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