Hi,
When dealing with XML component configuration file used by container (any of
them), it can become really unreadable for an average joe. Also a lots of
configuration parameters and xml declaration are not dealing with application
configuration itself (but more with component interaction).
A user running an application can be lost when he comes to editing such file,
this, just for changing a simple value.
So here comes my suggestion.
Could it be possible to refere some configuration values outside the current
conf xml file, using xsl-xpath-like query.
For exemple, having a well known phoenix XML conf:
<thread-manager>
...
<min-threads>5</min-threads>
...
</thread-manager>
-----
could become
<thread-manager>
...
<min-threads><conf:value
select="document('simpleconf.xml')/root/min-thread/text()"/></min-threads>
...
</thread-manager>
---------
with file simpleconf.xml
<root>
<min-thread>5</min-thread>
</root>
-------
This exemple does not illustrate pretty well the problem, and also the xpath
query syntax is coming from outerspace, but this was just to explain the
need.
Also you might suggest using entity declaration, but this can be unreadable
when dealing with more than 10 values.
Regards.
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