On 4/17/06, Tom Schindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've created a jira(DDLUTILS-94) entry where I've attached a sample of > how I think HTML-Generation could look like(customization is done using > css).
I only had a glance at it, but I wondered why do you need the Ant task ? Wouldn't Ant's style task suffice ? > I've also already worked on an XSL to create PDF using FOP but I have > nothing to show up here at the moment. Other things I'm working on > currently: > - GEF DB-Designer emitting database.xml (at the moment I'm using clay > but I not really happy with it) > - Inclusion of auto-generated ER-Diagramms into HTML using batik and > SVG. > - Utility to convert clay-files into database.xml Cool stuff! I only tried Clay once but found it didn't do what I needed at that time (so I stayed with Visio then). > At the moment I think the database schema has the following shortcomings: > - only one schema > => no foreign keys about schema boundries That is not exactly true because you can have multiple schemas in one XML file if you make the table names fully qualified, e.g. schemaName.tableName. > - no place for multiline comments > - no possibility to place custom data Well, yes. If you turn off validation, then you should be able to insert your own elements - the parsing should be unaffacted as long as the original structure is maintained. But surely, a schema with proper extension points would be nicer. Tom
