Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/06/2003 11:48:55 AM:
> On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > With the repository plugin, the use of the parent scope is to 'return'
a
> > variable from a tag in a plugin. The use of the system scope is to
access
> > system properties.
>
> The system properties have always been available so that's not a
> problem.
>
> So in the repository plugin it's used as a means to return a value.
> You're using it like a method, sort of?
Sort of. One tag parses a file and makes it available in the caller's
context, e.g.
<repository:parseAudit var="audit"/>
The caller is the parent scope to the tag.
> > With the plugin plugin, it's used to read a property file into it's
own
> > scope and pass them as a single map back to the parent.
>
> What's the parent in this case?
A goal in the same plugin.
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