Re: [Springframework-developer] New DTD

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

Advance warning: Unless anyone has a strong objection, I'm 
going to check in the changes to XmlBeanFactory and a revised 
DTD in the next couple of days. 

Following our discussions:
- there will be a new <collection> element. A <property> must 
contain a <collection>,<ref> or <value>.
- This approach will allow <map> elements to be added fairly 
easily. However I don't have time to do this in the first cut.
- This is *not* backward compatible. Name -> id attribute, 
<property> elements can't contain text. I'm dropping 
forgiving parsing.
- Validation will be enforced. This means we need to think 
about where we put the DTD. (Juergen, how's your URIResolver 
coming on?) 

I'm currently changing all the XML files in the test suite to 
the new format. I've already tested the changes to 
XmlBeanFactory itself.

Although the new format is more verbose, I think it is more 
maneagable, and the changes are definitely worthwhile. 
Validation of id refs works nicely, and even in the fairly 
primitive Eclipse XML editor I use, I get prompted for 
completions as I author the XML.

THESE CHANGES WILL BREAK ALL EXISTING XML FILES. However, the 
changes should be fairly straightforward.

Regards,
Rod