Hi I think you should start with your own proprietary format in the String.
Fell free to create a ticket in JIRA issue tracker for this new feature. http://camel.apache.org/support.html On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Max Ullinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I was wondering if it might be possible to extend the <description> tag of > the current spring-XML language for further versions. > > In my usecase we need to define several services (aka routes, see > RouteContextRef et al.) and want to supply them with additional > meta-information like a version number. > To be able to parse that information it would be helpful if the description > tag could contain other generic key-value pairs, like > > <description> > <string name="version">1.2a</version> > A generic description of one of the XML language elements > </description> > > Currently the description tag only supports String content. > Of course we could do our own proprietary data format and parse that, but it > would be nice to leverage what is there already and extend on that > > I checked the only documentation but found as good as no reference to the > description element. I have no idea where it us used or if it is used at all. > I can't really judge how much effort this extension would require. > > Best regards, > Max > -- Claus Ibsen Apache Camel Committer Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/ Open Source Integration: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/davsclaus
