On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:55 am, Dominique Devienne wrote: > 2) DynamicTag is lazy, thanks to UnknownElement. Your rewrite is creating > the element at parse-time, my implementation does it only at runtime. > Again, I favor delaying the instantiation and configuration. Ant should > never have mingled parsing of the XML and instantiation of the model in the > first place.
The "first place" was a very long time ago and there was a lot of history for why Ant is the way it is. You might be interested in a little tutorial I wrote to try and explain this history: http://codefeed.com/tutorial/ant_config.html I'll try to have a look at DynamicTag soon but I've not had time yet... Conor
