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On 11/17/05, David E. Jones <
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>
> I wouldn't use some general text editor for this... it would not only
> be a pain to type in all of the elements, attributes, and enumerated
> attribute options, but it would also be a pain to remember all of the
> elements and attributes and legal attribute values for enumerated
> ones, and to validate the files you create.
> There are over a dozen different XML files in OFBiz, and half a dozen
> that you'll use all the time. I highly recommend getting a good XML
> editor that can do completion (including documentation annotation
> popups), validation, and so on based on XSD files which is what OFBiz
> uses. I personally use one called Oxygen and I generally use it as an
> Eclipse plugin. There are lots of other options of course...
Over a dozen... in the svn checkout I have, there are a total of 1012!
Of course they're certainly not all mini-lang files.
I was just curious why something like beanshell wasn't used, figuring
that there must be some good reasons that I wasn't aware of due to my
inexperience with this codebase and the problem domain. (I might have
used something like Hecl [because I wrote it] or Jacl [because I like
Tcl], or some brand of Scheme but that's just me and I dont want to
get sidetracked on scripting language preferences:-)
In any case, I guess that's of secondary importance compared to my
second question and some of the example scenarios. Another one that's
been brought to my attention: we get a bunch of different product
catalogs from suppliers electronically in all kinds of disparate
formats. The other guys have said that it's not really possible or
reasonable to coerce those into some kind of standard format, so they
keep them as-is in DB tables and fish things out of those as needs
be... Doable?
I guess I'll be able to get rid of some doubts when these guys come up
with a machine of my own to run stuff on and I can play with OFBiz
'live'.
Thankyou,
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David N. Welton
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