Re: [nant-dev] SUMMARY: Expression Syntax

Ian MacLean Sun, 07 Dec 2003 21:34:25 -0800

I don't think it is - is it ? Maybe the suggestion was that xmlpeek could be implemented as a function rather than a task ie :

<property name="foo" value="${xmlpeek( 'somefile.xml', '\\somexpathexpr'}" />

I think there will probably be a number of borderline cases where its uncertain whether a given piece of functionality should be a task or a function.

Ian

I didn't realise xmlpeek was on the chopping block. Any particular
reason?
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-----Original Message----- From: Jaroslaw Kowalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 December 2003 8:47 AM To: Scott Hernandez; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nant-dev] SUMMARY: Expression Syntax

Good point about side-effects. This does paint a clear distinction. But

then

you get tasks like xmlpoke, with no corresponding xmlpeek;

this might

make the user search around for the expression/function to use, or even assume that this functionality does not exist.

You're right. Perhaps xmlpeek should stay.

I'm inclined to give this a day or two to stew, commit the

changes to

the head, if there are no serious issues. We doc, write unit tests, and do a release with expression support in a week or less.

That would be great!

We can also put a switch in our config section, and a command line option, to turn it off, as you have suggested.

I'll implement this in EE-patches + I'll write some html docs and make "test2" release for developers when I'm ready. When it's ok we'll move the patches to the main trunk. Ok?

Jarek

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