Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
- Subject: Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:44:10 -0700
On Oct 17, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Thomas Engelmeier wrote:
Interface Builder doesn't generate code, it writes out a serialized
object graph. That said, I don't think it's unreasonable at all to
at least *expect* to be able to use FileMerge on n/xib files.
Comparing and merging files is a core activity for developers, and
I think that you are right to expect it to work for all of the
basic file formats used for developing apps for our platforms.
I fail to see an compelling reason why it couldn't be an graph
representation that supports 3rd party tool or even manual
manipulation.
Basically it is an tree (simple enough in XML) with cross-references
to other nodes / objects (might be a lot simpler to manipulate with
a xpath-like representations).
I believe that would be a good approach. Something like generate-id()
combined with <xsl:key> used for loading purposes could obviate all
that stuff in the file format. It a well known technique in use for
~10 years.
Philip Aker
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