I can give it a shot.
I am assuming that it is still just an XSLT manipulation, Sam?

Scott Sanders

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:35:31PM -0800, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> I noticed as I was updating dependencies for one of the packages I deal
> with that the dependency cross reference produced by Gump:
> 
>   http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/gump/latest/xref.html
> 
> only lists "first order" dependencies (i.e. those explicitly declared in
> the <project> element.  However, if you have the following set of
> dependencies:
> 
> * A depends on B
> 
> * B depends on C
> 
> then there is an implicit second order dependency of A on C -- and it
> would be useful to identify and report such second (and higher order)
> dependencies in a report like this.  The required relationships should be
> derivable from the data that is already available, so its MMP (merely a
> matter of programming :-).
> 
> A common motivation for looking at cross references is to tell you all the
> JARs you need on your class path, and the Nth order dependencies report
> would tell you that.  It would also more accurately identify the set of
> other packages that could potentially be broken by backwards-incompatible
> API changes.
> 
> Has anyone thought about implementing anything like this yet?
> 
> Craig McClanahan
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