[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there are many ways to skin this cat....and I have done em all. I think we will
all wish in the near future that anything that consumes XML has such a default
ignore unknown xml handling, just makes life a little easier when
interoperating.
maybe, maybe not.
the original HTML browsers @ cern used to ignore unknown elements, which
caused trouble when <i> came along, as something like
<p>
The neutrino flux generated by the WA141 experiment is <i>not</i>
considered a health risk to people in the Jura mountains.
</p>
Would appear in the wrong browsers, without the "not", leading to a
complete inversion of meaning. Hence the current default of 'silently
ignore unknown tags in HTML". Which is why all things like inline
javascript have to comment themselves out, so the browser would ignore
them.
Returning to Ant, now that it has namespaces, you can in theory mix it
with other stuff, be it nest it in a SOAP payload, a CDDLM deployment
descriptor request sent over SOAP (that is somewhere at the far end of
my todo list), or with some RDF metadata. The latter is an interesting
use, and if we do some kind of per-namespace element handoff,
permittable without too much trauma.
Actually, still on the subject of namespaces, I think we need better
diagnostics there.
1. something to recognise that there is a type declared of that name in
a different namespace, to catch namespace errors
2. <diagnostics>/-diagnostics to list types declared by namespace.
-steve
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