[webbeans-dev] Re: XML configuration format

[Scott Ferguson]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Gavin King wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Scott Ferguson <ferg at caucho.com>  
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>> The WebBeans architecture is richer, more modular, and more  
>> extensible than
>> DTD-style syntax can handle cleanly.
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> 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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