[antlr-interest] merged Ric's changes into main ANTLR line

[Matthew Ford]

We choose this route for a complex configuration file we needed because it
was easier to insist on the users handling XML then having to write a real
user interface for the configuration settings.  If the user complains XML is
too hard to handle we just point to XML-Spy as the solution (one of perhaps
many).
regards
matthew
PS. the version of XML-Spy I purchased was about A$260 I think. (V3.??)

----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. Mitchell" <johnm-antlr at non.net>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] merged Ric's changes into main ANTLR line


> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Ford <Matthew.Ford at forward.com.au> writes:
> [...]
> > I read you interesting article on xml and I disagree about it as a
reason
> > to not use Ant One of the things I like about XML is using XML-Spy which
> > makes XML human readable and also checks for valid inputs if you have
> > DTD's and schemas Build files can get very messy and using Ant and
> > XML-Spy is as good as any I have used.
>
> FYI, Ant v2.x is supposedly going to support multiple input formats, not
> just XML.
>
> Also... Alas, XML-Spy is not open source.  Having to buy a $400 license
> tool to be able to effectively/efficiently/etc. use Ant is, IMVHO, a very
> odd argument.  Of course, if you have to have something like XML-Spy
> because you've gotten sucked into using so many things that require such a
> tool.... :-)
>
>
> ObAntlr:  Anyone up for designing and building a good "makefile" language
> and a translator from that to e.g., Ant?
>
> Take care,
> John
>
>
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