[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is with contributors.xml?
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=115142496218295&w=2
Good question and really the point of the email I sent
yesterday. This is what I can determine
CONTRIBUTORS needs to be binary because it contains non-ASCII
character codes. The problem is that over its history it has
been broken many times due to different people using different
character encodings.
AFAICT, the rationale for contributors.xml is that it allows
for an ascii representation of the contributors list, with
associated benefits.
Whatever we end up with, there should be one definitive list.
I see two possible courses of action
1. maintain CONTRIBUTORS as binary and remove
contributors.xml. We need to agree and maintain a file
encoding - currently UTF-8
2. maintain contributors.xml and remove CONTRIBUTORS. In
builds, we could generate CONTRIBUTORS easily enough (or even
an HTML representation)
What do you all think?
Conor
I would prefer the xml file
- I dont think that there will be so many changes, that we can do
the xml-overhead (over the plain list) by hand
- we'll get semantic information (pre-/surname)
- we'll have the correct spelling of names (German, French, ...)
we could add other metadata like lat/long and feed it into google
maps/earth...
Jan
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output indent="no" method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
<!-- the root node -->
<xsl:template match="/contributors">
<xsl:value-of select="introduction"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="name">
<xsl:value-of select="first"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="middle">
<xsl:value-of select="middle"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="last"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- dont copy the text and unmatched nodes as per default in xsl -->
<xsl:template match="*"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Or an XHTML page in UTF8; this stylesheet only handles latin names.
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