On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:23:22PM +0100, Ashley Williams wrote: > I've mentioned in a previous post that I'm slightly fed up with > editing xml files, even with a fancy editor. I though I might knock > up a stylesheet that will enable me to write a short hand for example: > > project > modelVersion 4.0.0 > groupId com.acme > dependencies > dependency > groupId servletapi > dependency > groupId ejbapi > > > In other words tabs are important and should map nicely to begin and > end tags. With a little magic the one-one map would mean I don't even > need to keep a separate file since it's just a view on an existing > xml file.
A alternative solution to this is to use the very rich metadata we have about the Maven model and generate Swing forms and then create a pretty simple tool to mix this all together. We already generate XML readers and writers for the model so marshalling and unmarshalling the objects is already taken care of. With a little more glue the Maven project builder and validator could be put into the mix aswell. Note that the MevenIDE guys might have similar thoughs as they already have a visual editor for the Maven model. If this is of interest to anyone speak up and we can talk about the details. -- Trygve
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