+1 on going ahead and committing it as a new module. Perhaps it could
be excluded from the 1.2 release, but no harm if its included there either.
Damn, Aslak - you rock!
Erik
Aslak Hellesøy wrote:
> hi guys, i'd like to inform you about some stuff I have been toying with... I told
>Ara and Pazu in an unrelated mail, but here you go all af you.
>
> Exactly. Give it a dtd, and you get a Velocity template. You get beans too (a bean
>interface and a skeletal bean impl that gives us a head start) for each element in
>the dtd.
>
> We, the coders, will now code bean impls in stead of tag handlers. -and templates
>will *always* be ok.
>
> In fact, this stuff can be completely decoupled from xjavadoc and xdoclet. Implement
>the bean interfaces and let them access some other datasource than
>xjavadoc/xdoclet....
>
> Since this is generic, I propose submitting a new module: xgg (xml generator
>generator)
>
> what do you think? Any objections? Do you want to see a zip first?
>
>
>>---- Original Message ---
>>From: "Ara Abrahamian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Aslak_Helles=F8y'?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: RE: ant.blabla tags
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have toyed a little with some XDoclet2/Velocity prototoping lately,
>>
>>and
>>
>>>I
>>>have come up with a very interesting concept.
>>>It's a DTD parser (built on JavaCC) that will generate a Velocity
>>
>>template
>>
>>>for the same DTD. -Using Velocity to generate Velocity!
>>>In addition to generating a Velocity template for the DTD it will also
>>>generate java bean interfaces representing
>>>elements in the DTD. The generated template will use these beans.
>>
>>You mean you give it the ejb2 dtd and get a velocity template?! Wow!
>>
>>
>>>-So all we (programmers) have to do is implement these interfaces. The
>>>implementation of each interface is very simple, and it makes
>>
>>everything
>>
>>>very clean. These beans will wrap the xjavadoc API.
>>>=20
>>>I'm ready to commit this on a separate branch so you guys can take a
>>
>>look
>>
>>>at
>>>it. What do you think? I promise you this is cooool stuff!
>>
>>Cool.
>>
>>
>>>Aslak
>>
>>Ara.
>>
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Ara Abrahamian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>Sent: 23. september 2002 19:19
>>>>To: 'Aslak Helles=F8y'
>>>>Subject: ant.blabla tags
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Howdy pal,
>>>>
>>>>Just wanted to let you know that I'm working on autogenerating the
>>>
>>Maven
>>
>>>>plugin. I'm almost done. I had to refactor ant.required a bit:
>>>>ant.required is used only for marking a parameter required ("Yes,
>>>>destDir is required"), while ant.not-required is used for marking it
>>>
>>not
>>
>>>>required but with a comment ("No, Unless you set blabla parameter").
>>>
>>If
>>
>>>>none of these tags present then ant.not-required and "No." as the
>>>>comment is used. I need it because I want to know programmatically
>>>>whether a parameter is required or not. Unfortunately because of a
>>>>limitation of Jelly I probably have to introduce a new
>>>
>>ant.default-value
>>
>>>>tag. "@ant.default-value src/java" for example. This one's used for
>>>>setting the default value in the plugin.jelly file.
>>>>
>>>>Ara.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
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