----- Original Message ----- From: "Craeg K Strong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:07 PM Subject: Re: handling external resources
> Our requirements are quite different, but I bet there is a design for an > <xmldatatype> that could satisfy both requirements. If the data type > represented a DOM, then perhaps it could also provide some > kind of XPath support. That way you could grab the value of a > node out of it: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > ... > > <deployset>foo</deployset> > ... > > using an XPath expression. Is that what you were thinking? > That would be very useful IMHO. > > Of course, at first none of the existing Ant tasks would know > about this new datatype, > but we could retrofit them one at a time (xmlvalidate, xslt, etc.) > > Sounds like a good idea to me. If other ant-dev-ers agree, then > we should try to pick a good user API (the name of the datatype and > the attributes). > Didnt Ovidiu P. do something like this for his AntFarm work on sourceforge? Try involving him? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
