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From: Oliver Heger <oliver.heger@oliver-heger.de>
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:27:15 +0100
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Hi Greg,

Am 14.11.2016 um 19:01 schrieb Greg Torrance:
> I hope I'm not asking too many questions...
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to determine the character/byte position of a particular key in a configuration file?
No, the original position from where data is read is not stored in the
resulting configuration.

> 
> My intent is to do a pre-pass of an XML configuration file in which certain configuration keys/values are replaced by other keys/values. Once that is done the file will be reloaded. I realize this is possible outside of Commons Configuration, but I was wondering if there is a "hook" in the tool that might help simplify the process.
> 
But wouldn't it be easier to do this with the Configuration API? Load
the configuration, iterate over its keys, replace data as appropriate
and save the result?

Oliver

> Thanks,
> Greg
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