rting" basedir="." default="..."&gt;
&nbsp; &lt;import file="${path_to_imported}/imported.xml"/&gt;
&lt;/project&gt;

&lt;!-- imported.xml --&gt;
&lt;project name="imported" basedir="." default="..."&gt;
&nbsp; &lt;property file="imported.properties"/&gt;
&lt;/project&gt;
</pre>

<p>This snippet however will resolve <code>imported.properties</code>
against the basedir of <code>importing.xml</code>, because the basedir
of <code>imported.xml</code> is ignored by Ant. The right way to use
<code>imported.proper