Ya I think my ambivalence stems from the same thinking Josh points out. I'd love to move us to package.json personally. I think all agreed last meeting that was solving problems we don't really have.
And ultimately MANY downstreams are relying on both XML and namespaces so removing them will have be a noisy MAJOR update sort of thing. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Josh Soref <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew wrote: > > Maybe I'm crazy, but I can't stand them. > > Most people can't > > > I don't think they add any value, > > They allow other products which are frozen ("released to an audience") to > interoperate in a defined manner with your software. And vice versa. > > If you don't care about that, then there isn't much reason to use XML > (it's a horrible language). > > For the most part, I'd say that Cordova pretty much by definition doesn't > care about this. Moving the file from www/ to www/../ broke existing > software (amusingly including cordova serve). Cordova's view is basically > that people will update their tools to work with the new version. And > that's fine, but it isn't really a match for the promise of XML. > > > and are a cause of confusion. > > Absolutely > > > So... I'd like to: > > A: Remove xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"; from our config.xml > template > > B: Change xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"; -> xmlns=" > http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"; > > C: Revert the commit that enforces the namespace to exist. > > > Does anyone hate this idea? > > I'm pretty sure we (BlackBerry) will have to do some work in response to > this, but that isn't a big deal. > > If you're going to depart from the file format, why not switch to JSON? > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/02/06/json-debugger-visualizer-in-visual-studio-2013.aspxeven > Microsoft is offering editors for it. > > Is there any value that you see in Cordova using XML? > > >
