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From: Mcclain Looney <mcclain@looneys.net>
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Subject: Re: What is ant good for?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:41:22 -0600
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On Tuesday 26 February 2002 12:30 pm, you wrote:

> But what you you call the file the tells Ant what to do?
> (I knew the *contents* was XML ...)

build.xml or "the build file"

> (BTW, I find XML quite verbose and hard to read.  What is psgml?)
>

I too think xml is horrible and sucky to read or write, but i suppose that's 
what xml editors are for. has anyone used an xml editor to write build files 
(no smart-ass comments about vi and emacs please <g>)? did they work?

-mcclain

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