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Subject: Re: Vague Digester Question
From: Simon Kitching <simon@ecnetwork.co.nz>
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Hi Howard,

You state that "the paths are now unpredictable", but it doesn't seem so
to me from your example. You just have an extra couple of patterns

/root/page  (as before)
/root/test (new pattern)
/root/test/page (new pattern)

If this is the case, Digester should still work fine. The solution will
be a little more complicated but not excessively so...

Regards,

Simon

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 23:28, Howard Miller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This might be a little off topic... sorry in advance
> 
> I have an application that (using struts) displays a series of simple forms
> in a web application. The forms are defined using an xml file parsed by Digester.
> It looks like
> 
> <root>
>   <page>
>      ... stuff for this page..
>   </page>
>   <page>
>      .. stuff for the next page
>   </page>
>      .. and so on
> 
> 
> this works fine. But things have got more complex and I now need to be able
> to put tests around the pages and possibly within the pages. This will be arbitrary.
> so for example..
> 
> <root>
>   <page>.....</page>
>   <test condition="..">
>     <page>...</page>
>     <page>...</page
>   </test>
>   <page>
>     ...some fixed stuff...
>     <test condition="...">
>       ...conditional part of page
>     </test>
>   </page>
> 
> this seems a whole different ball game! I'm really asking if Digester is up
> to the job as the "paths" are now very unpredictable. I have had a look at using
> straight DOM, but this is going to be a nightmare to develop the tree-walking
> algorithm.
> 
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
> 
> Howard Miller
> http://uk2.net
> 
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