On 2002-10-03 22:22, Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ernst de Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If most file formats would be XML-based (yes I know XML should not > > replace all file formats, but it comes a great way) then these > > formats would be leveraged by the fact that there are a lot of XML > > tools available, like XML editors and XML transformation > > processors (XSLT). It's easy to convert from one XML format to the > > other, making the generation of DocBook or XHTML documents a /lot/ > > easier. > > I've always wondered what a Makefile would look like in XML.
You'd be surprised. There is already such a thing. The j2ee (Java Beans, Enteprise Edition) already have something that works this way. It's called "ant", if my memory from my early 2001 work with j2ee, doesn't fail me. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -==- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #3: Wed Oct 2 04:55:42 EEST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
