From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Today the way we deal with this is to add new methods to <condition> > > every time we define a new <conditional> quite unmanageable when we > > keep on adding more and more conditions, almost unmannageable now > > that we may have two or three different containers, and really > > unmanageable if we ever provide pluggable user defined conditionals. > > In the condition case, this isn't all as bad as you describe it as all > "containers" (five right at them moment as long as you don't count my > <if> task) extend from a common base class that handles it. > > I think, it is commonly agreed, that we will need a typed registry for > these kind of things sooner or later. >
Well, I was asking for one sooner (in ANT 1.x). And by the way, in case it was not clear, the only problem I had with Peter original proposal (the one involving <role/> definitions) is that by having a dynamic DTD we will loose the avility to provide a DTD agains which the XML descriptor can be easily validated. I know we can always do the validation by hand, but it is nice to be able to rely on a DTD. Besides that, the only difference between both proporsal are mostly syntactic sugar. Jose Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
