[webbeans-dev] Re: XML configuration format
On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Gavin King wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Scott Ferguson
<ferg(a)caucho.com>
wrote:
> The WebBeans architecture is richer, more modular, and more
> extensible than
> DTD-style syntax can handle cleanly.
Well, I'm not sure if I would go that far .... I'm certain that it's
possible to recast the current functionality of the XML into good
ol'-fashioned DTD-style syntax. It's just that in doing so, you would
introduce a whole lot extra verbosity and lose a whole lot of
typesafety.
"cleanly" is the key word. Massive extra verbosity and loss of
validation is not clean :)
-- Scott
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