On Friday, Oct 4, 2002, at 06:26 US/Eastern, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2002-10-03 22:22, Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ernst de Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> If most file formats would be XML-based (yes I know XML should not
>>> replace all file formats, but it comes a great way) then these
>>> formats would be leveraged by the fact that there are a lot of XML
>>> tools available, like XML editors and XML transformation
>>> processors (XSLT). It's easy to convert from one XML format to the
>>> other, making the generation of DocBook or XHTML documents a /lot/
>>> easier.
>>
>> I've always wondered what a Makefile would look like in XML.
>
> You'd be surprised. There is already such a thing. The j2ee (Java
> Beans, Enteprise Edition) already have something that works this way.
> It's called "ant", if my memory from my early 2001 work with j2ee,
> doesn't fail me.
Almost. It's indeed called Ant but has been developed under the
umbrella of the Apache Jakarta project.
-J
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