On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? > Probably but where are they? It looks like some text was lost in a reply to this thread. Gary > 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:;> > > > > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
