RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-12 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, James Mitchell wrote: Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:11:49 -0400 From: James Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal That's

Re: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-12 Thread Antoni Reus
A Dissabte 12 Octubre 2002 00:25, Craig R. McClanahan va escriure: Do *you* really want to have to type all those messages in more than once? Or could I use the same source document to produce both the end user docs and the message resources file for the webapp? Is a plain text

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-12 Thread MARK
PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:57 AM To: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal Why use xml for the message resources in the first place? Using XMl doesnt add any inherent value. The properties file is fine, easy to use/read, and XML

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread MARK
Why use xml for the message resources in the first place? Using XMl doesnt add any inherent value. The properties file is fine, easy to use/read, and XML is way too wordy, constricting. Seems like its not advantageous to me, perhaps Im missing something. There is already a tool that builds

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread James Mitchell
/Struts Evangelist http://www.open-tools.org -Original Message- From: MARK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:57 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal Why use xml for the message resources in the first place

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread James Mitchell
LOL James Mitchell Software Engineer/Struts Evangelist http://www.open-tools.org -Original Message- From: Antoni Reus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:33 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread Martin Cooper
-Original Message- From: MARK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:57 AM To: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal Why use xml for the message resources in the first place? Using XMl doesnt add any inherent

Re: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread James Turner
At 03:33 PM 10/11/2002, Antoni Reus wrote: A Divendres 11 Octubre 2002 20:56, MARK va escriure: Why use xml for the message resources in the first place? Using XMl doesnt add any inherent value. The properties file is fine, easy to use/read, and XML is way too wordy, constricting. Seems

Re: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread Eddie Bush
I was reading a thread last night somewhere off in bozo-land where this fellow was trying *so* hard to shove patterns into his design it was hillarious. I won't go into details - but shove is an appropriate description. Sometimes, people want so badly to use a new thing that ... well they

Re: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread Eddie Bush
James Mitchell wrote: I'm involved in this as a way to help others and add to list of functionality provided by this framework. Personally, I prefer DBMessageResources. (You'll see why when I finish the Management Tool for it) This topic has been discussed many times, over many months, and it

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread Daniel Honig
: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal I was reading a thread last night somewhere off in bozo-land where this fellow was trying *so* hard to shove patterns into his design it was hillarious. I won't go into details - but shove is an appropriate description. Sometimes, people want so badly

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread James Mitchell
: Re: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal I was reading a thread last night somewhere off in bozo-land where this fellow was trying *so* hard to shove patterns into his design it was hillarious. I won't go into details - but shove is an appropriate description. Sometimes

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread James Mitchell
-Original Message- From: Eddie Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:58 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal James Mitchell wrote: I'm involved in this as a way to help others and add to list

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread Martin Cooper
-Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 8:33 AM To: Struts Developers List; Commons Developers List Subject: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal Martin (and others) On a suggestion by Craig, I had a look at

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread James Mitchell
-Original Message- From: Martin Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:29 PM To: 'Struts Developers List'; Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto

RE: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

2002-10-11 Thread James Mitchell
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention. Not sure if we overlooked it, but I was wondering how are you handling special (XML/HTML) character data? Especially for Struts (errors.header and errors.footer) One peice of functionality that I am adding will (for the most part) take care of that in a clean