Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:19:23 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <200210040919.23226.znerd@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <200210040049.05902.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com>
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On Friday 04 October 2002 04:22, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> 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. Just take a look at Ant and you know it :-) http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ In ports: devel/jakarta-ant/ Kind regards, Ernst -- Ernst de Haan Development Team Leader Wanadoo Nederland B.V. "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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