I agree wholeheartedly. Cody Fyler Lending Grid Build Team cody.a.fy...@wellsfargo.com (515)-441-0814
-----Original Message----- From: Ron Wheeler [mailto:rwhee...@artifact-software.com] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:52 AM To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: Re: Is it necessary to learn XML in order to lear Maven? On 27/06/2013 11:35 AM, cody.a.fy...@wellsfargo.com wrote: > I would argue that to be a competent, modern computer programmer, you DO need > to learn XML. > > There are many powerful things that can be accomplished once you have that > knowledge. You are right that in general XML is useful for lots of things and that people who know lots of technologies have a much broader palette of solution components However, the specific question relates to Maven and you really do not need to have any more knowledge of XML than understanding that <something> will be terminated by </something> and that they can be nested. You can use an IDE that will give you a graphic editor for your POM files. You can cut and paste models of POMs. Your graphic editor should spot any XML validation errors. Ron > > Cody Fyler > Lending Grid Build Team > cody.a.fy...@wellsfargo.com > (515)-441-0814 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ctrueden.w...@gmail.com [mailto:ctrueden.w...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Curtis Rueden > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:31 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Is it necessary to learn XML in order to lear Maven? > > Hi Nayana, > >> Is it necessary to learn XML in order to lear Maven? > No, if you use Eclipse you can configure your POM in its graphical editor. > Other IDEs may have similar things. > > Even if you edit POMs by hand, XML is "human readable" meaning you don't > really need an in-depth understanding of XML in order to hack together a > Maven POM. > > My definition of "learn XML" would be more like: > * Understand basics: elements vs. attributes, etc. > * Understand XML validation; e.g. XSD and DTD > * Understand XSLT stylesheets > * Understand parsing: SAX, DOM and XPath > > And you certainly do not need to know those things to configure a Maven POM. > > Regards, > Curtis > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Nayana ABREU > <holanda.nay...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Is it necessary to learn XML in order to lear Maven? >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Nayana Holanda de Abreu >> holanda.nay...@gmail.com >> Phone: 662-801-6349 >> Skype: nayanexbourdon >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Ron Wheeler President Artifact Software Inc email: rwhee...@artifact-software.com skype: ronaldmwheeler phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
