> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Info about Antidote >
> Consider the case > > <task name="javac" ... > > <param name="compiler" value="..." /> > <param name="classpath"> > <param name="dir" value="..." /> > </param> > </task> > > VS > > <javac compiler="..." > > <classpath dir="..." /> > </javac> > > The first is much easier for computers and programmers while the second is > easier for mere mortals. We discussed the idea of using XSLT to transform > from approach 2 to approach 1 which was interesting but nothing > ever really > happened with it. > Thanks for the update. Maybe internally Ant 2.0 could use the more type-safe approach (the first one), but allow the second scripy-way through such an XSLT transformation. Then again this may be overly complicated. It will be interesting 3 years from now if we will regret going one way or another.... sim
