I tried to use an external entity file for the list of developers and could not get it to work.
Can you inherit from more than one file? I'm autogenerating the developers list file from several others so I don't want to muck about my project.xml file. Thanks... Carl Nicol -----Original Message----- From: Maczka Michal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 2:33 AM To: 'Maven Users List' Subject: RE: XML entities and forward compatibility > -----Original Message----- > From: Dion Gillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:24 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: XML entities and forward compatibility > > > Given that they're a standard part of XML, and that the m2 project > descriptor in one form will be an XML document, why would they not be > available? > Because a) How would you deploy POMs which contains external XML entities to say ibiblio? The same problems - diffused files - may affect continuous integration tools - more files more problems to deal with b) XML representation of POM is not the only available and I hope we will be using mini databases for keeping them as this will enable faster processing. XML entities hve really no meaning for databases and they are not so friendly for futute tools like visual POM editor. d) imo ideally round trip XML -> Bean Model --> XML or XML --> DB --> XML should leave POM untouched. And it will be hard to do this with external entities c) (most important) They won't be needed michal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
