On 2/25/06, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > > Why do you need a plugin for this? > > Why not? Validating XML is a standard qualitiy requirement for any > project that delivers XML files, possibly a lot of XML files.
That's the beauty of open source -- I may think its "dumb" and not see the value of such a plugin, but if someone else needs it, builds it, then we all get new functionality in our tool. I don't want to discourage anyone who is thinking of building a tool like this as a Maven plugin. I just want to understand the use case(s) for it! >From a Maven plug-in perspective, what kind of XML files are you validating... Static XML files from your /resources folder? Is this the primary use case of the plugin you are looking for, Tim? I can also imagine that Maven could use this plugin to verify that a generated web.xml or ejb-jar.xml file is properly formed after it is generated. So that's perhaps another real use case. >From a testing perspective, I can see XSD validation as being infinitely more useful/important. Developers can call out to project code from a Junit test to verify the returned XML data against the XSD etc. Again, just want to dig into this problem a little more and understand the use case(s). Perhaps someone in this mailing list will get inspired and write such a plugin if we dig into this a bit and realize it does not already exist and there is in fact a need for it... Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
