Add the ability for tooling to digest clay component descriptions
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Key: SHALE-187
URL: http://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/SHALE-187
Project: Shale
Type: Improvement
Components: Clay
Versions: Nightly
Environment: Linux, Windows
Reporter: Ryan Wynn
Priority: Minor
Description is an element of the shale-clay.dtd. Currently it is used to
document components, attributes, symbols, etc., but is not digested by the
ClayXmlParser. It would be beneficial for design time tooling to have the
option to create an instance of the ClayXmlParser that would digest these
descriptions and associate them with their corresponding meta-beans.
I believe that the solution to this would be to add a description property to
the meta-beans and add the digester rules necessary to populate this attribute
during the parse. The default would be to not parse descriptions, but a design
time tool could turn the parsing on.
This solution may also involve adding some sort of SymbolBean akin to
AttributeBean in order to hold the description attribute. Currently symbol
metadata is parsed into a HashMap of name-value pairs. This leaves no place to
store the description. Attribute metadata on the other hand is stored in
AttributeBeans which along with the other meta beans allow for a place to hold
the description.
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