Perfection may be hard to achieve, but if Alexander's suggestions are an improvement over the current schema, should we add them to the current code base?
Remko On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Ralph Goers > <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > On Oct 14, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Gary Gregory > > <garydgreg...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > >> The current idea I have is that the XML Schema would reflect exactly > >> the code that is running. We should start with that. AFAIK, the > >> current code we have does not allow open-ended XML fragments, but I > >> could be wrong... > >> > >> Gary > > > > Of course it allows open-ended XML fragments. If the user provides > their own Appender as a plugin they are free to create other plugins that > the Appender can then reference. The same is true for Filters, Lookups, > etc. XMLConfiguration and JSONConfiguration don't care about specific > element names - only that they map to a defined plugin. So any scheme you > come up with to generate a fully strict schema would have to be able to > account for user defined plugins. > > I should have been more specific, or there is another piece I do not > understand. > > If I or Alexander provide our own Appender, they will be annotated > with Log4j2 annotations. Today, yes, the XML is open-ended, but not > per XML Schema. In my imaginary yet-to-be-implemented system, you > would tell Log4j, at developement or build time of your app, to > rebuild the metadata such that: (1) the normal config knows about my > custom appender, and (2) I can generate a new XML Schema. > > Gary > > > > > Ralph > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org<javascript:;> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org<javascript:;> > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com <javascript:;> | > ggreg...@apache.org<javascript:;> > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > JUnit in Action, Second Edition > Spring Batch in Action > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org<javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: > log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org<javascript:;> > >
