Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:26:21 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org> Cc: Ernst de Haan <znerd@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <20021004102620.GE584@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <200210040000.28365.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20021003222102.90460.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <200210040049.05902.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com>
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On 2002-10-03 22:22, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> 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. You'd be surprised. There is already such a thing. The j2ee (Java Beans, Enteprise Edition) already have something that works this way. It's called "ant", if my memory from my early 2001 work with j2ee, doesn't fail me. -- keramida@FreeBSD.org -==- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #3: Wed Oct 2 04:55:42 EEST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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