Jochen Wiedmann pisze: > > I'd basically like to use "snippets", or whatever you call them. However, if > you restrict them to a "plugin pack", then I'd consider them as half baken. > There are lots of other places where one could use them. For example, a user > on [EMAIL PROTECTED] has recently proposed to use snippets within > configuration. > > My recommendation would be use an XML preprocessor. Like this: > > <plugins> > <include ... attributes to configure the include here ...> > </plugins> > > The XML preprocessor would replace the include element with an XML snippet. > > Advantages: > > - Easy to implement: It is sufficient to modify the code that reads pom.xml, > settings.xml, > and/or profile.xml. (At least I would hope, that there is "the code" for > each of these ... :-) > - Powerful: Could be enhanced to do filtering or stuff like that.
Why not use existing solutions, then? I mean, XInclude standard that is supported by XML parsers and would not clutter Maven's code. -- Grzegorz Kossakowski Committer and PMC Member of Apache Cocoon http://reflectingonthevicissitudes.wordpress.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
