Ant task properties not working

I'm having a hard time setting the basedir property for the ant task.  When 
I put it directly in the checkstyle XML config file, it works.  (I have 
about 10 projects and want to reuse that file, so I don't want the path in 
it.)

My ant task is:

<target name="checkstyle" depends="compile">
    <taskdef  resource="checkstyletask.properties" 
classpath="/dev/tools/checkstyle-4.3/checkstyle-all-4.3.jar"/>
    <checkstyle config="../configuration/checkstyle/checks.xml" 
properties="src/conf/checkstyle.properties">
        <fileset dir="src/java" includes="**/*.java" />
        <formatter type="xml" tofile="build/checkstyle/report.xml" />
    </checkstyle>
    <xslt in="build/checkstyle/report.xml" 
out="build/checkstyle/report.html" 
style="../configuration/checkstyle/report.xsl" />
 </target>

I've tried about every combination of "checkstyle.basedir", "basedir" for 
the property key -- trying to get the darn thing to work from a properties 
file, and as a nested property.  Nothing seems to work.  (I tried the same 
thing with the cache file and noticed that it was never created where it 
should have been.)  Can anybody tell me how I am supposed to do this?  All 
I'm trying to do is trim the full path to just the package name in the 
report XML file.  Thanks for any help!

Nathaniel Stoddard 


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