On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:45, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > Costin Manolache wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:03, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > > > > >>Costin Manolache wrote: > >> > >>>Can someone summarize what's wrong with the gump descriptor used by > >>>all jakarta and xml projects ? > >>> > >>>I understand we may need to add more stuff ( maybe using some ns: ), > >>>but I don't quite understand why we need to change existing definitions. > >> > >> > >>If you look at the proposed DTD, apart from the root element, there is > >>basically nothing that the Gump descriptor cannot cope with. > >>It's the route we've taken with Forrest, and my proposal takes from that. > > > > > > Sounds good. What about the root element :-) ? > > It has been asked by many to change the root element to <project>, and > the <project> to <subproject> (or similar), but it should be made to > work with both semantics, for backward compat.
I love XML. Maybe some namespace should be used ? ( ant also uses <project>, as we all know :-) > Ok, I think I have had enough to get started. > I'll go with this pseudo-DTD, and once it's defined as a formal DTD and > the new summary pages get published, our Maven friends can add the info > to the Gump plugin. Since I don't think ant to change its dtd from <project> and namespace support is not in any released version - it may be nice to add at least a namespace if you really need to use the same word. Some editors might get confused. Costin
