Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
Peter,
An additional enhacement that would be very very nice,
is to allow having a body-element. So I can write
something like this:
<macrodef name="x" body="y">
<sequential>
<javac ...>
<y/>
</javac>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
And use it like:
<x>
<fileset..../>
<classpath .../>
</x>
instead of
<x>
<y>
<fileset..../>
<classpath .../>
</y>
</x>
For many macros, those that wrap some group of tasks
for example, it looks very odd to have to have an element
that covers all the tasks inside.
How dificult would be to achieve that?
Not too easy.
MacroInstance is a DynamicConfigurable and MacroInstance#Element is
a TaskContainer. These two interfaces cannot be implemented at the moment
by the same object, and DymanicConfigable#createDynamicElement does
not have enough information to create a proper namespaced UnknownElement
since the changes from 1.6beta3 to 1.6.0.
Peter
Jose Alberto
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 January 2004 17:42
To: Ant Developers List
Subject: Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks macrodef.html
description attributes are allowed on tasks and targets, so
it is a logical extension to have them for the nested
elements - esp for macrodef
attributes/elements.
Peter
Dominique Devienne wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Log:
Add description attributes for elements and attributes of macrodef
PR: 24711
Obtained from: gudnabrsam at yahoo dot com and Yuji Yamano
How about a addText(String) so that any text within the
attribute could
be appended or replace the description attribute?
Or allow a nested <description> element? Wait, isn't there this some
rule that any <description> element is part of the build element or
something!?!?
I allows feel that XML attributes are unsuitable to hold
sometimes long
text such as descriptions!
--DD
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