using Velocity to externalize configuration properties ?

[Tom Zeller]

>> Not sure how easy it will be to integrate Velocity with Spring
>> configuration parsing, but I can give it a try. And yeah let's not
>> build a custom parser for 3.x.
>
> I don't mean a custom XML parser, but being able to use our parser
> machinery for the XML and then hand the DOM off to Spring, basically. As
> it is, Spring does some things that are broken in their XML parsing, and
> it's hard to prevent it.

I probably still misunderstand, but my first thought re Velocity is
that it would be inserted between the DOM and Spring. So an area worth
investigating.