Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
>
> (i can't think of a good way to say this, so i'll just dive straight in.
> i'm sure that people'll straighten me out when i go wrong...)
>
> ecs2 is a new version of jakarta-ecs with a new internal structure.
> there's a lot of repetitive leg-work involved in converting code from
> the old structure to the new.
> i've been working on using code generation with texen to (hopefully)
> make this easier and quicker.
> the idea is to generate elements and attributes from DTDs (via
> xml-schema) and velocity templates.
sounds cool
>
> i've been working on this for the last couple of weeks and i feel that
> i've proved the concept and have stuff which'll do pretty much what's
> needed :-)
>
> what i need to do now is to tidy stuff up, document and make it
> available so that other ecs people can take a look and use it. the
> problem is that i have made general changes and enhancements.
>
general changes to texen? Are the appropriate here? you should give us
a look-see if you want....
> i think that the best thing would be for me to take this code and give
> it a home (for the moment) in the ecs project. that way, it can be used
> over there without worrying.
If the code makes changes to the texen core, and it is deemed good and
of general use by the Texenites, then it prollie should be rolled into
velocity.
(Of course, I wonder if we should graduate texen out of the Velocity
core and into a separate space, like in commons, but that's for another
discussion, I suppose...)
> i will post the design ideas in the code (and patches if they're wanted)
> back to this list and take stuff from there. (i also have some nice
> examples such as generating xml object-model parsers from xml-schema.)
post away. that stuff sounds neat.
> (i'm pretty sure that the generation stuff won't make it into the ecs2
> release so we can worry about where code should live to generate ecs
> element models from DTDs later on.)
>
> comments? is this a good plan?
>
> - robert
geir
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