Re: [Springframework-developer] Simplify typical xml setup syntax

[Aleksei G. <ne...@ka...>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:09:01 +0200, jürgen höller [werk3AT]  
<jue...@we...> wrote:

> Another request to simply <property> usage in XML bean definitions:
>
>   http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-379
>
> This time, it's not about considering CDATA inside  
> <property>...</property> as value, but rather about further attributes  
> for the <property> tag itself:
>
>   <property name="user" value="admin"/>
>   <property name="linkFormatter" bean="linkFormatter"/>
>
> I'd probably name the bean reference attributes differently, i.e.  
> "ref-bean" respectively "ref-local". But the general idea is not bad -  
> it's cleaner than the CDATA-as-value suggestion, I guess.
>
> Let's compare the currently necessary markup:
>
>   <property name="user"><value>admin</value></property>
>   <property name="linkFormatter"><ref bean="linkFormatter"/></property>
>
> Which is clearly more verbose, even if not too much. The main advantage  
> of the attribute version is that it avoids closing tags completely.
>
> Thoughts?

This is really good idea - better than CDATA-as-value with even less  
typing - and we still will have pretty strict DTD!

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//regards, neuro