From owner-freebsd-current  Fri Oct  4  0:20: 8 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 2076337B401; Fri,  4 Oct 2002 00:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from zaphod.euronet.nl (zaphod.euronet.nl [194.134.168.213])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 4DFD643E86; Fri,  4 Oct 2002 00:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from ernst@zaphod.euronet.nl)
Received: from zaphod.euronet.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by zaphod.euronet.nl (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g947JNvK003084;
	Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:19:23 +0200 (CEST)
	(envelope-from ernst@zaphod.euronet.nl)
Received: (from ernst@localhost)
	by zaphod.euronet.nl (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g947JNjD003083;
	Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:19:23 +0200 (CEST)
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org>
To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:19:23 +0200
User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3
Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <200210040049.05902.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com>
X-Address: Muiderstraat 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <200210040919.23226.znerd@FreeBSD.org>
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-current.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-current>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-current>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Friday 04 October 2002 04:22, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > If most file formats would be XML-based (yes I know XML should not
> > replace all file formats, but it comes a great way) then these formats
> > would be leveraged by the fact that there are a lot of XML tools
> > available, like XML editors and XML transformation processors (XSLT).
> > It's easy to convert from one XML format to the other, making the
> > generation of DocBook or XHTML documents a /lot/ easier.
>
> I've always wondered what a Makefile would look like in XML.

Just take a look at Ant and you know it :-)

   http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/

In ports: devel/jakarta-ant/


Kind regards,

Ernst

-- 
Ernst de Haan
Development Team Leader
Wanadoo Nederland B.V.

    "Come to me all who are weary and burdened
        and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message