Specialization of loadresource that works on files exclusively and provides a srcFile attribute for convenience. Unless an encoding is specified, the encoding of the current locale is used.
If the resource content is empty (maybe after processing a filterchain) the property is not set.
| Attribute | Description | Required | 
| srcFile | source file | Yes | 
| property | property to save to | Yes | 
| encoding | encoding to use when loading the file | No | 
| failonerror | Whether to halt the build on failure | No, default "true" | 
| quiet | Do not display a diagnostic message (unless Apache Ant has been 
    invoked with the -verboseor-debugswitches) or modify the exit status to reflect an error. Setting this to 
    "true" implies setting failonerror to "false".
      Since Ant 1.7.0. | No, default "false" | 
The LoadFile task supports nested FilterChains.
    <loadfile property="message"
      srcFile="message.txt"/>
Load file message.txt into property "message"; an <echo>
can print this.  This is identical to
    <loadresource property="message">
       <file file="message.txt"/>
    </loadresource>
    <loadfile property="encoded-file"
      srcFile="loadfile.xml"
      encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
Load a file using the latin-1 encoding
    <loadfile
      property="optional.value"
      srcFile="optional.txt"
      failonerror="false"/>
Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though)
    <loadfile
      property="mail.recipients"
      srcFile="recipientlist.txt">
      <filterchain>
        <striplinebreaks/>
      </filterchain>
    </loadfile>
Load a property which can be used as a parameter for another task (in this case mail),
merging lines to ensure this happens.
    <loadfile
      property="system.configuration.xml"
      srcFile="configuration.xml">
        <filterchain>
          <expandproperties/>
        </filterchain>
    </loadfile>
Load an XML file into a property, expanding all properties declared
in the file in the process.