From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 4 6:23:14 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 5B9C637B401; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EA943E42; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a058.otenet.gr [212.205.215.58]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g94DN56T017507; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:23:09 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g94DN2ek000852; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:23:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g94AQLfD001819; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:26:21 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:26:21 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mike Barcroft Cc: Ernst de Haan , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <20021004102620.GE584@hades.hell.gr> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-03 22:22, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Ernst de Haan 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