Re: Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring bean factory XML format

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

Let's take the following (which I posted earlier today) as the basis for
discussion.

JP is happy.  Is everyone else happy with this, or have any suggestions?

I've written a DTD, which makes authoring fairly easy (although the Eclipse
XML editor isn't enforcing correct referencing):


<bean class="MyClass" id="foos" singleton="false>
<property name="foo"><value>FOO</value></property>

<property name="foo3">
  <ref refid="foo3"/>
</property>
<property name="foo4">
   <value>FOO4.1</value>
   <value>FOO4.2</value>
   <ref refid="foo4.3"/>
</property>
</bean>

Always consistent: always at least one value or ref
subelement of a property elt; <value> contains only text
data; ref body must be empty.

Slightly more verbose, but probably easier to author with an
XML editor (even the basic Eclipse XML editor I use most of
the time).

I don't care whether it's called value or data, or anything
else...any ideas?

Regards,
Rod