On Tue, March 8, 2005 9:48 am, Joe Germuska said: > I do think we're pretty close, although not much has happened since > the last wave of "what will 1.3.0 be" discussions. I know I haven't > had much time for development and documentation in the last few weeks.
I know the feeling :) I'm actually surprised I have time today to play myself! I pulled down the nightly of 1.3 that was posted a week or two ago (I think I was the first to discover the problem with the Maven build not working). I haven't went back to it since. Glad to here its close though, I'm looking forward to touching it. > I guess I was just wondering how you were going to deal with some > considerable changes to the XML configuration syntax. Certainly, > it's possible to add Digester rules to handle XML extensions, and you > could probably get away with simply leaving out a DOCTYPE declaration > so as to avoid validation problems. (Extending the DTD is probably > more trouble than its worth.) You mean as far as 1.x goes? I'm just looking now to see how the config file is read in (haven't played with Digester at all yet). But yes, just dropping the doctype was how I was going to, temporarily, get around any validation problems. I figured either (a) what I do gets added to the core and the DTD gets updated at that point, or (b) people can use it as a contrib thing with the knowledge that they have to drop the doctype (or updated the DTD themselves and keep it local I suppose). > Then again, undertaking a new initiative in which people are > interested using 1.3.0 functionality would help us to get people > testing and verifying that code, which is an unglamorous but critical > part of development. Ah, there's the alterior motive :) Seriously though, I hear what your saying... But, since I can see using this functionality myself in current projects, and since they aren't going to move to 1.3 for a while even after the gold release, my itch at the moment is unfortunately not going to help achieve your goal. If my schedule stays light for a few more days though, I could see taking another crack at the current 1.3 and maybe doing both this and StrutsWS. > Joe Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
