On 27/06/2013 11:35 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I would argue that to be a competent, modern computer programmer, you DO need
to learn XML.
There are many powerful things that can be accomplished once you have that
knowledge.
You are right that in general XML is useful for lots of things and that
people who know lots of technologies have a much broader palette of
solution components However, the specific question relates to Maven and
you really do not need to have any more knowledge of XML than
understanding that <something> will be terminated by </something> and
that they can be nested.
You can use an IDE that will give you a graphic editor for your POM files.
You can cut and paste models of POMs. Your graphic editor should spot
any XML validation errors.
Ron
Cody Fyler
Lending Grid Build Team
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Curtis Rueden
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Subject: Re: Is it necessary to learn XML in order to lear Maven?
Hi Nayana,
Is it necessary to learn XML in order to lear Maven?
No, if you use Eclipse you can configure your POM in its graphical editor.
Other IDEs may have similar things.
Even if you edit POMs by hand, XML is "human readable" meaning you don't really
need an in-depth understanding of XML in order to hack together a Maven POM.
My definition of "learn XML" would be more like:
* Understand basics: elements vs. attributes, etc.
* Understand XML validation; e.g. XSD and DTD
* Understand XSLT stylesheets
* Understand parsing: SAX, DOM and XPath
And you certainly do not need to know those things to configure a Maven POM.
Regards,
Curtis
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Nayana ABREU <[email protected]>wrote:
Is it necessary to learn XML in order to lear Maven?
Thanks
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