Ah, catalogs are actually a wonderful thing. They translate identifiers
to something system-specific, typically. They are mircales in SGML and
XML has been knocked for not having them previously.
Has the w3c done a catalog spec?
-bob
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 10:37, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since noone reacted on my quest for XML Catalog support in Maven, I am
> > patching Maven myself to handle it.
>
> Probably not the most rational approach. If none of the developers
> responded it more likely means none of us are interested, which probably
> means we're not to keen on the idea, which most likely means your patch
> won't get integrated.
>
> You pretty gave no explanation as to why catalogs would be a good thing
> other than saying:
>
> ---
>
> I think it could solve a lot of
> http://wiki.codehaus.org/maven/EnsureProjectConsistencyWithEntities
>
> ---
>
> > I have 2 questions;
> >
> > 1. I'll submit a patch back to the community, so which branch should I make
> > the diff against.
>
> You should probably make an attempt to explain yourself a little more
> clearly before potentially wasting your time.
>
> For one, I don't really even know what catalogs are or how they are
> used, or how they would be of benefit maven. The other thing is that if
> catalog support is something only supported by things like xerces and
> not simple parsers like the xpp3 parser then it's definitely not going
> to survive into maven2.
>
> Additionally the patch is certainly not going in before the 1.0 release.
>
> > 2. In MavenUtils.getNonJellyProject(), there is a 1), 2) & 3) steps. Would it
> > be possible for the 2) step (MavenUtils.createContext() ) to be done first,
> > and the 1) second?? Reason is, I want to pick up properties from the
> > project.properties and pass it into the parser.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Niclas
>
> --
> jvz.
>
> Jason van Zyl
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://maven.apache.org
>
> happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will
> elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come
> and sit softly on your shoulder ...
>
> -- Thoreau
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
Bob McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Werken Company http://werken.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
