On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:

> > I don't think its quite that simple.... how would such a framework get
> > attribute values and such to reconstruct the XML?  There are typically no
> > getters on Ant tasks to return back attributes and sub-elements.
> > 
> > And also, keep in mind that an Ant task does not necessarily extend Task....
> > the only requirement to being an Ant task is implementing an execute()
> > method!
> > 
> Very true.
> 
> Notice that if we were to keep the syntactic information arround in 
> RuntimeConfigurable
> like we discussed in the past. Then it would be very easy to do. Since the 
> UnknownElement
> tree is all uninterpreted info.

Yes, and it would also save the original property ( with ${} in it ), not 
the processed one.

( I have a very bad week, I'll commit some code for RuntimeConfigurable in 
proposal as soon as I get free )

Costin


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