Re: I want to become an Ant developer

["Kevin A. Burton" <bu...@relativity.yi.org>]

Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
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> > -perhaps validation of build.xml files
> 
> You mean creating a DTD/Xschema for Ant? Well, I don't have anything
> against this, but it needs _costant_ update and it's very easy to make
> it fall behind.
> 
> But I agree that validation is a good thing.

This is interesting.  I don't know perfect this is.  +0.  You would
always have to ship a .dtd or xsd with your Ant and point to it.  My
build.xml files only get tweaked about once a month so I don't think
validation should be a major priority.

Kevin

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Re: I want to become an Ant developer

[James Duncan Davidson <ja...@eng.sun.com>]

> This is interesting.  I don't know perfect this is.  +0.  You would
> always have to ship a .dtd or xsd with your Ant and point to it.  My
> build.xml files only get tweaked about once a month so I don't think
> validation should be a major priority.

Actually, there is no way to make a static DTD for ant. The ability to
define tasks on the fly using <taskdef...> ensures that.

.duncan