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From: "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <j_a_fernandez@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:
 jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional
 XMLValidateTask.java
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:33:04 +0100
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From: "Stefan Bodewig" <bodewig@apache.org>

> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jose Alberto Fernandez <j_a_fernandez@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>=20
> > Well, most of this tasks had some hardcoded class in
> > case JAXP was not available
>=20
> If JAXP is not available, Ant won't run 8-)
>=20
> Are there any other tasks with hardcoded parser names?
>=20

I do not know about hardcoded names, but in particular with all the J2EE
tasks (e.g., ejbjar, etc.) there are more and more tasks that need to =
perform
XML parsing. ANT already found the parser factory. Why not just allow
any task to just ask ANT to provide a parser instance for you to use?

> > additionally using the JAXP api is a real pain in the butt :-)
>=20
> Could be worse, coverting <xmlvalidate> was rather easy.
>=20
> > shouldn't we be nice and give them a one method call that everybody
> > can use?
>=20
> Maybe a class in our util package to remove the copy-paste reuse
> between ProjectHelperImpl and XMLValidateTask.
>=20

+1

Jose Alberto



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