Brett Porter wrote:
Let's not start another attributes vs elements holy war :)
I have no problem with either, but the reasons I see not to change:
- we would have to support both. This may lead to confusion.
- currently it is very consistent - there are no attributes, lists are
always visible as lists, etc. The syntax is a lot more memorable,
even if it is more verbose.
I agree that requiring tools is a bad idea, but they certainly won't
hurt (even an XML editor + XSD will do the trick here). I think the
focus should be on removing repetition in the content, not the syntax.
That's just my view - others?
- Brett
I think that both formats should be valid, however if a plugins is to be
put in the repository I'd go with the longer version that way it's all
standardized and clean. I think it should be easy to make a tool that
parses a pom and spits out one or the other version. What I'd be more
interested is the namespaces issue, I really hate the way ant gets
extended and the way we mix things in the pom without a namespace (ex,
you can put in directly ant tags inside, for me that is just asking for
trouble), this leads to unverifiable and dependent to external factors
pom. The added benefit is that from that point on any xml editor that
understand xsd's would work great.
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