Re: [htdig-dev] Questions about htdig-3.2.0b3/htcommon/defaults.cc

[Brian W. <bw...@st...>]

Ok. I will volunteer to do this. I'll sketch
up a mini-design and post it here.

If I can take you up on you offer of creating
an intial version of the xml file, that would
be great.

Regs

Brian

At 00:46 7/09/2002, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Brian White wrote:
>
> > I was looking at defaults.cc and I was wondering if
> > it might be better managing the info as an XML file
> > and then using that as a basis for generating
> > defaults.cc and the HTML docs.
>
>Yes, this would actually be quite wonderful. Currently, it's hard to
>"validate" changes you make to defaults.cc. It's also a minor pain to
>insert and format HTML, since it has to be properly escaped. (No, it's not
>a big deal, but XML would obviously be easier.)
>
> > Disadvantages
> >    * Part of the build process for exexcutabe would require
> >      perl to exist
>
>No, not really. We have lots of "autogenerated" files in 3.2. You'd only
>need Perl if you modified defaults.xml and needed to generate the new
>defaults.cc.
>
> >    * After rabbiting on like this I now have to decide
> >      if I willing to put my money where my mouth is.....
>
>Yes, now that's the question. :-)
>
>Formatting defaults.cc into defaults.xml isn't hard and I'd be glad to do
>that with some emacs macros. But I'd be glad to accept this change if you
>(or someone) will write the defaults_generate.pl script. Ideally the
>script would have some nice error-checking to tell you if you've left out
>a field, etc.
>
>--
>-Geoff Hutchison
>Williams Students Online
>http://wso.williams.edu/
>
>
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