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AFAIK the block.properties file is generated using an Ant task and it's based on some XSL translation of gump.xml. If you follow that trail, you should be able to produce the desired XML file yourself.
 
HTH.
 
Bye, Helma
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Sent: Monday, 06 June, 2005 13:52
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Subject: Dependencies between blocks

Hi All,
 
just reading the blocks.properties file and I see there are a lot of dependencies among the blocks. It's hard to find out what blocks to build if I want to do a minimal build for using a specific block.
 
Isn't it possible to create some sort of xml-file "block-dependencies.xml" that lists all dependencies.  That way a stylesheet could be created that generates some sort of visual representation (e.g. in SVG).  E.g. :
 
<blockdependencies>
  <block name="databases">
    <dependency>xsp</dependency>
  </block>
  <block name="hsqldb">
    <dependency>databases</dependency>
  </block>
  <block name="jms">
    <dependency>databases</dependency>
    <dependency>hsqldb</dependency>
  </block>
  <block name="ojb">
    <dependency>databases</dependency>
    <dependency>hsqldb</dependency>
  </block>
  <block name="petstore">
    <dependency>hsqldb</dependency>
  </block>
</blockdependencies>

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