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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:15:03 +0100
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
Organization: Anyware Technologies
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Subject: Re: Problem in session-fw / RequestContext
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Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

>Sylvain Wallez wrote: 
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>We just came across a very annoying problem in session-fw: 
>>the RequestContext class creates a DOM which represents the 
>>full contents of a request, translating all request 
>>attributes to XML elements having names.
>>
>>Now when the session transformer is called by a flowscript, 
>>there's a request attribute whose name is "FOM JavaScript 
>>GLOBAL SCOPE/file://my/path/to/flow/script.js" which is 
>>obviously an invalid name for an XML element and leads to a 
>>nice DOMException :-(
>>
>>I added a quick'n dirty workaround (just catch the exception) 
>>as we need it to work and have a tight schedule, but there 
>>are IMO two problems there:
>>- we cannot assume request nor session attributes names are 
>>valid XML element names,
>>- building a complete DOM representing the full request 
>>(headers, cookies, parameters, attributes, etc, etc) seems 
>>really overkill when most uses will just extract a single 
>>data. It makes me think to the old days of Cocoon 1. Using 
>>some lazy instanciation techniques would really speedup the 
>>thing and lower memory consumption.
>>    
>>
>Yepp, definitly - I never found a good way of doing it, so if
>you or someone else is able to provide a good implementation,
>let's change it.
>  
>

http://domify.sourceforge.net/ ?

What do you think of the quick fix that consists in ignoring attributes 
that lead to an exception? Is it acceptable?

Sylvain

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