From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 4 8: 9:24 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 626AE37B401; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bob.cryptohill.net (ns1.cryptohill.net [24.244.145.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6ED43E6A; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from vangelderen.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bob.cryptohill.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C294D1C891; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:12:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:24:03 -0400 Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Cc: Mike Barcroft , Ernst de Haan , current@freebsd.org To: Giorgos Keramidas From: Jeroen C.van Gelderen In-Reply-To: <20021004102620.GE584@hades.hell.gr> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) 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 Friday, Oct 4, 2002, at 06:26 US/Eastern, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. Almost. It's indeed called Ant but has been developed under the umbrella of the Apache Jakarta project. -J -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org - +1 242 357 5115 "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -- R. Buckminster Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message