On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 17:00 Europe/London, Bruce Snyder wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Alex Blewitt said:
AB>J2EE_1.4-4.2.7=J2EE 1.4: Transaction Management (Transactional JDBC AB>Technology Support) AB> : AB>J2EE_1.4-6.17=J2EE 1.4: Java Management Extensions AB> :
Another very good point which has made me rethink the idea completely. How
about a cross reference which contains all the metadata?
Could do. What other type(s) of metadata were you thinking of?
AB>The Doclet can then weave the section number in and lookup entries in
AB>the keyset. Should also be able to do sufficient sorting so that it can
AB>order things by chapter and title anyway, since they're encoded in the
AB>key itself.
Right idea, but what about the rest of the metadata? I don't think that
parsing a TOC and a metadata file is the right approach. I vote for
housing it all together in an XML file ala JMSCTS (http://jmscts.sf.net/)
as suggested by Tim Anderson in the next message in this thread.
Could put it into an XML format if you wanted; after all, a properties file is just a poor-man's XML file. Don't see any reason why it couldn't be, apart from the fact it was much easier for me to generate as a properties file :-)
Alex.
