No Joe, you didn't miss anything :) I was already thinking about how easy this would be under 1.3 too. But, I'm hesitant to start playing with 1.3 until it's actually released (at least in beta). This is an easy add to 1.3, as you indicate, and I'm also looking forward to porting my StrutsWS project over to it since I think that will be a nice demonstration of why chain is cool. I just don't want to start playing with something that isn't really stabilized yet (close thought, right?).
And besides, something like this seems to be getting a fair amount of interest, so someone would eventually want to back-port it if I started with 1.3. Since we both believe it will be quite easy under 1.3, why not start with the 1.x branch where it's a bit more work? :)
I do think we're pretty close, although not much has happened since the last wave of "what will 1.3.0 be" discussions. I know I haven't had much time for development and documentation in the last few weeks.
I guess I was just wondering how you were going to deal with some considerable changes to the XML configuration syntax. Certainly, it's possible to add Digester rules to handle XML extensions, and you could probably get away with simply leaving out a DOCTYPE declaration so as to avoid validation problems. (Extending the DTD is probably more trouble than its worth.)
Then again, undertaking a new initiative in which people are interested using 1.3.0 functionality would help us to get people testing and verifying that code, which is an unglamorous but critical part of development.
Joe
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