I feel Avalon is overkill for what we need: configuration of components is only a minor issue in Xindice, and the current framework works fine IMHO...
I forgot 'e.g.' when talking about configuration. From what I've seen, the configuration doesn't currently handle more complicated configurations (multiple children with the same name).
Of course you can always spend some time enhancing the Xindice class but I prefer to use what's already out there.
And the configuration is only an example. I have no experience with Avalon but I think that it can bring more than just the configuration.
-Vladimir
-- Vladimir R. Bossicard Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice
