From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T19:57:55+09:00
Subject: Re: XML2RB - Executing XML

> It looks interesting, but I am more interested to what do you
> want to achieve?

What I want to achieve? Well, uh, nothing... That's one of the
goals in my life. "Don't achieve anything. You'll die anyway."

Sometimes, you have to do things in an unusual way. That's how
you discover unusual things. This is an experiment. I don't
know what to expect. If you stick to "the old thinking", you
don't achieve anything... ;]

> Because if it only the execution graph, there are already
> tools outthere to help you out (even ant -debug target will
> already give you very good hints).

You're talking ANT-specific; I'm talking XML in general. My ANT
story is just an example.

Okay, we're talking ANT-specific now... In order to make
debugging easier, I want to expand all environment variables
(loaded by <property environment="env"/> ). That's done by
adding 3 pre_conditions [1]. Not bad. (Mmm, could be a subject
for day 3...)

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

 [1] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/monitorfunctions/index.html#4.0.0