On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:05, Mathieu Anquetin <mathieu.anque...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > > I am currently working on ivy.xml (in particular its schema) to provide an > ECORE model of it. My goal is to provide a graphical editor for ivy files > and improve validation thanks to MDD and hand it to IvyDE if it sounds > intrersting. > > But, I am confronted to a weird issue. There are currently two different > "exclude" tags. I understand they have not the same purpose, but they are > exactly the same in their description except the name/artifact attribute. > So, this is my question : Could it be possible to retain just one attribute > name, thus modifying the XSD and parsing ? Should I post an issue and > provide a patch for the XML parsing ? Hello Mathieu, I think one of the exclude tag is for artifact exclusion inside a dependency tag, while the other is for module wide excludes. Changing the xsd of ivy.xml is not something that can be done easily: many people rely on Ivy stability, and Ivy provides backward compatibility in ivy.xml format since very early versions (0.9 I think). Is ECORE too limited to handle an xsd where the same tag can appear with different constraints depending on its parent? Xavier -- Xavier Hanin - 4SH France - http://www.4sh.fr/ BordeauxJUG creator & leader - http://www.bordeauxjug.org/ Apache Ivy Creator - http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
