From 05f85418a22d988cedc1e0b5ae9db28784aaedda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:54:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a todo for XPath like structures for tasks

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@272131 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 proposal/myrmidon/docs/todo.html     | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/todo.xml | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/docs/todo.html b/proposal/myrmidon/docs/todo.html
index e5d782bbf..80027ed7d 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/docs/todo.html
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/docs/todo.html
@@ -88,6 +88,25 @@
             sections describe some of the many things which still need to be done to
             achieve that goal.  This list is currently under construction.</p>
                                   <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+    <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
+      <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+        <a name="XPath-like Locators for tasks"><strong>XPath-like Locators for tasks</strong></a>
+      </font>
+    </td></tr>
+    <tr><td>
+      <blockquote>
+                        <p>Most tasks are grouped into some sort of task container. The task containers
+                can be things like workspaces, projects, targets or other tasks. Each of these
+                containers usually has a name. Thus we could refer to tasks via a path such as
+                "/avalon/compile/javac" would refer to the task "javac" in the target "compile"
+                in the project "avalon". In the past it has been requested that a task get access
+                to this path programatically - other people have also asked for access to things
+                like the currently running target. We need to assess this and decide whether we
+                wish to support it.</p>
+                    </blockquote>
+    </td></tr>
+  </table>
+                                  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
     <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
       <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
         <a name="Embeddor HOWTO"><strong>Embeddor HOWTO</strong></a>
diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/todo.xml b/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/todo.xml
index e85dccb81..7bf93b943 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/todo.xml
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/todo.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,19 @@
             sections describe some of the many things which still need to be done to
             achieve that goal.  This list is currently under construction.</p>
 
+            <subsection name="XPath-like Locators for tasks">
+
+                <p>Most tasks are grouped into some sort of task container. The task containers
+                can be things like workspaces, projects, targets or other tasks. Each of these
+                containers usually has a name. Thus we could refer to tasks via a path such as
+                "/avalon/compile/javac" would refer to the task "javac" in the target "compile"
+                in the project "avalon". In the past it has been requested that a task get access
+                to this path programatically - other people have also asked for access to things
+                like the currently running target. We need to assess this and decide whether we
+                wish to support it.</p>
+
+            </subsection>
+
             <subsection name="Embeddor HOWTO">
 
                 <p>Assigned To: Peter</p>