Details
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Type:
Wish
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Status:
Closed
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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JDK version and platform:SUN - 1.4.2_06 for Linux & IBM 1.4.1 for AIX.
Description
Adding the method:
void addElement(Object element);
to the HierarchicalStreamWriter would greatly simply our lives:
Here is my proposed implementation:
public void addElement(Object element) {
if(element instanceof Element)
top().add((Element)element);
}
Is this something you will do?
Thanks,
Randy Secrist
Activity
Joe,
We have a converter which merges the elements from another XML document.
From within our converter code, we would like to do this:
public void marshal(Object source, HierarchicalStreamWriter writer, MarshallingContext context) {
Document dom4jDoc = DataFactory.getDom4jDoc(source);
Element el = dom4jDoc.getRootElement();
if (el != null)
}
Another more generic solution would be to do this instead:
public void marshal(Object source, HierarchicalStreamWriter writer, MarshallingContext context) {
Document dom4jDoc = DataFactory.getDom4jDoc(source);
Element el = dom4jDoc.getRootElement();
if (el != null)
}
Either way, we need something that allows the HeirachyStream interface access to the underlying Element, in the same way that it already exists for Attributes.
If you would like to use the first way, I could send you the corresponding (implementation specific) stuff so you don't need to spend the time for Xom, Dom, Stax, JDom, etc...
Randy
Randy Secrist
added a comment - Joe,
We have a converter which merges the elements from another XML document.
From within our converter code, we would like to do this:
public void marshal(Object source, HierarchicalStreamWriter writer, MarshallingContext context) {
Document dom4jDoc = DataFactory.getDom4jDoc(source);
Element el = dom4jDoc.getRootElement();
if (el != null)
{
el = el.createCopy();
writer.addElement(el);
}
}
Another more generic solution would be to do this instead:
public void marshal(Object source, HierarchicalStreamWriter writer, MarshallingContext context) {
Document dom4jDoc = DataFactory.getDom4jDoc(source);
Element el = dom4jDoc.getRootElement();
if (el != null)
{
el = el.createCopy();
String elmXml = el.asXML();
writer.addElement(elmXml);
}
}
Either way, we need something that allows the HeirachyStream interface access to the underlying Element, in the same way that it already exists for Attributes.
If you would like to use the first way, I could send you the corresponding (implementation specific) stuff so you don't need to spend the time for Xom, Dom, Stax, JDom, etc...
Randy I'm closing this as I plan to add a more general solution to the problem. This can be tracked on XSTR-166.
Joe Walnes
added a comment - I'm closing this as I plan to add a more general solution to the problem. This can be tracked on XSTR-166 . 
Randy,
Could you give me more details on what you are trying to do, so maybe we could come up with a solution that doesn't add implementation specific details to the interface.
thanks
-Joe