Jacek Laskowski wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dain 2004/09/01 21:31:08
Modified: applications/jmxdebug project.xml applications/demo project.xml etc version-info.ent . project.xml Log: Changed version tags to use entity references
Awesome! I really like the idea of using the entity references. I have seen it the first time in OpenEJB2 (I guess it was Dave who made the changes) and I was deeply entertained.
I like using entity references also. Except that they require you use a REAL XML parser to 'expand' them. I've been burned on this kind of thing way too many times, with folks using either lamo parsers or even just regex's to read XML files. I gave up.
Although ... one thing I have done is to make use of Ant's replace bits to sort of simulate this. Keep a 'template' with a 'macro' in it in some kind of a template directory, then generate the real file from the template and a value for the macros. Not as dynamic as using entities, but it solves the problem of people reading my files with lamo parsers.
-- Patrick Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
