On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:25:14 +1000, Peter Donald wrote: >At 07:39 12/4/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >>>>> It would be better if there was a consistent doccing >>>>> standard. >>>> >>>>Agreed - I just don't think we should use XML comments for that. >>> >>> Partially agree - I think it should be namespaced elements - but >>> thats not viable for ant1.x. >> >>Oops, you say it yourself 8-) > >;) > >>Why would that not be viable in Ant1.4? >> >>We've switched to jaxp 1.1 already, so we could rewrite ProjectHelper >>to become namespace aware and ignore everything that's not in the >>default namespace for a starter - maybe hardcode a doc: namespace as a >>preview of a future "documentation aspect". > >Could be a lot of work, may confuse our users - especially if we change it >again for Ant2.0, I don't want to support it if it turns out to be >different from ant2.0 ;) >
I think the approach for 1.4+ should not be "will it match Ant2 exactly", but instead should be "how easy is it to convert to Ant2"? If we simply add a attribute or element, then XSLT'n that to a sub-element or namespaced attribute is trivial. d
