Wolf Paulus wrote:
Jarno,
I see your point, and having the ability do define a attribute that has some
kind of collection as a value is really helpful sometimes.
Therefore, instead of
<abc xyz="s,t,u"/>
we could write:
<abc>
<attr name="xyz">s</attr>
<attr name="xyz">t</attr>
<attr name="xyz">u</attr>
</abc>
However, I would not go that far and cascading this approach, giving
attributes their own attributes.
Why not? Seems to be usefull:
<gridbagconstraints>
<insets>
<top>5</top>
<bottom>5</bottom>
...
And I expect an easier implementation for this, despite I'm currently
having no concrete code in mind...
And concerning to your headache with performance: let's see if this is
really slowing things down. Why not use some configurable parser which
takes an interface as construction argument? This interface is either
implemented by a class using the old style of parsing things or another
one which behaves differently.
Frank
This is definitively NOT the final word on this and I would like to
encourage everyone to voice their opinion.
