*whew*.... ok, I understand! :)
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aslak Helles�y" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Erik Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-devel] many different tag formats?
> It won't interfere with your @todo or @param or whatever, because no code
> will ever ask for anything particular inside the value of your tags that
> don't follow the "XML" syntax.
>
> If you have:
> @todo three blind mice
> XTag.value() would return "three blind mice" without any problem.
>
> However, if you try to do a XTag.attributeValue(whatever), you'll get
> nothing (null)
> The tags that use the "bad" syntax (e.g. @weblogic:table-name COUNTRY)
will
> have to be changed to something like @weblogic:table name="COUNTRY".
> It can be retrieved with XTag.attributeValue("name");
>
> All the tag parsing logic should be in xjavadoc.XTag, and no code should
try
> to extract (for example) the second token of the value of the tag.
> In other words, no code should try to extract the "blind" in the example
> above.
>
> I hope you understand what I mean.
>
> Aslak
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 17. mars 2002 19:35
> > To: Aslak Hellesoy; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Xdoclet-devel] many different tag formats?
> >
> >
> > I like the idea of tightening up the syntax.... but that wreaks
> > havoc on my
> > usage of @todo! :(
> >
> > Erik
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Aslak Hellesoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 1:26 PM
> > Subject: [Xdoclet-devel] many different tag formats?
> >
> >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > The pre-xjavadoc xdoclet supports many different tag formats:
> > >
> > > 1) @once upon="a"
> > > 2) @while in the
> > > 3) @wild
> > > 4) @west there
> > >
> > > I suggest that we refactor/remove all places where format 2) and 4)
are
> > > used. In other words, a tag can have zero or more parameters (or
> > attributes
> > > as I'd rather prefer to call them). This would be analogue to
> > XML syntax:
> > >
> > > a) <once upon="a"/>
> > > b) <while in the/>
> > > c) <wild/>
> > > d) <west there/>
> > >
> > > As you know, b) and d) is not valid XML, but 1) and 3) is. It's a bit
> > messy
> > > the way it is now. I know that this will break backwards compatibility
> > with
> > > some sources out there, but the next release is a major one (xjavadoc
is
> > > soon in), and I think we can justify it. Moreover, with the advent of
> > > reverse xdoclet, xtags and xdoclet gui, it's preferrable to have a
> > "cleaner"
> > > syntax. What say ye?
> > >
> > > Aslak
> > >
> > >
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> >
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