Re: [Perl-workflow-devel] Making activity configs local to workflow/state?

[jonasbn <jo...@gm...>]

Hi Jim,

This is not a bad suggestion at all.

I do not think the implementation of the suggested would spoil  
anything it is more addition that is it changing. I have not made a  
thorough analysis though.

jonasbn
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On 27/11/2007, at 13.30, Jim Brandt wrote:

>
>
> Alexander Klink wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, on second thought, this does not really increase the  
>> readability
>> of the config file - anyone with a better idea?
>
> It does seem odd that you can have multiple workflow.xml files, each  
> with a type, but the remaining config files are not per type.
>
> Would it be possible to support a 'global' action.xml,  
> condition.xml, etc., and also allow users to load a 'typed'  
> action.xml? From the config side, the typed version would simply add  
> the <type> tags to the top.
>
> Evaluation would first look for a typed definition of an action, if  
> available, then go to the global definition. If not there, error.
>
> I haven't looked at the guts, so I'm not sure what would be involved  
> to get this sort of configuration loaded, but this seems useful.  
> There are cases where you might want global actions, and I agree  
> that there are many cases where you want type-specific ones. The  
> same applies to conditions, I think.
>
>
> Jim
>
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