bluemagicsource / magic-config

bluemagic properties library
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Switch all tags to just be string based #21

Open ghost opened 11 years ago

ghost commented 11 years ago

Currently we have the following tag objects:

https://github.com/bluemagicsource/magic-config-api/tree/master/src/main/java/org/bluemagic/config/api/tag

We would like to move away from these and just use the tags as strings. This would give us more flexibility (the ability to add different types of tags easily) and would be less overhead for us. This will also increase the usability for the end user, since they won't have to learn various different formats for the tags in the xml. We would still need to distinguish between single tags and other tags, but that's easy...just check to see if it contains an equals sign.

To do this we need to: