Wayne Johnson writes: > Anyone know a good way to manage XML in CVS? Is there a program > that will sort an XML file? To make sure that similar tags always > appear in the same order? Am I just dreaming?
It shouldn't be hard to write a small program that does this using the Xerces-C or Xerces-Java APIs. I would not recommend building this into CVS, but you can certainly "strongly encourage" your users to run this program each time before they attempt a checkin or merge (update). The biggest problem you'll face, however, is that InstallAnywhere freely renames the internal nodes that it generates, so an innocuous edit will completely rename about a quarter of your nodes. No amount of node sorting will fix this for you. Anyway, if you want to go down this path, perhaps you can change the installAnywhere invocation script to automatically call an XML sorter. I had to do something like this at a previous job, where I had to translate the absolute path names buried in the .iap file into a templatized form, so that other developers checking out the file could work with a proper path at their end. Anyway, I ended up doing the following: (a) I massaged the .iap file, and wrote a .iap_master file with the templatized paths. I only ever checked in the .iap_master file. (b) Created a couple of "ant" targets: one which I would execute to massage the .iap_master file into the .iap file before launching installAnywhere, and another that would clean up the saved .iap file back into a .iap_master file, which I could use to check back in to CVS. But because of the "unpredictable node renaming", we carefully avoided concurrent editing sessions by placing a watch on the file.. -- Shankar. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs