Looks like a neat idea ;)
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:07, Shekhar Jha wrote:
> I was looking at the concept of using XPath to generate skeleton DOM
> object. This means that instead of doing something like (please consider
> the code below more conceptual that actual api call)
> ...
> document.appendChild( OrderElement )
> document.getChild(..).appendChild( CustomerElement )
> document.getChild(..).getChild(..).appendChild( NameElement )
> document.getChild(..).getChild(..).getChild(...).appendChild(NameValueText)
> ...
> the whole tree would be created by just one call
> ...
> node = XPathAPI.selectNode("/Order/Customer[1]/Name");
> node.appendChild(NameValueText)
> ....
> or simply as some body else pointed out on xalan-j-users group just
> ....
> documentcreator.generate(node, "/Order/Customer[1]/Name/text()='John
> Doe'"); ....
>
> I am right now trying to evaluate whether this concept is a valid concept
> and if yes, i have a feeling will reduce Line of Code of XML generation for
> a lot of people.
> I did get some encoraging response on xalan-j-user group, but was also
> looking for some pointer along the line of how to go about it. I am looking
> on this group more interms of validating and detailing this concept.
>
> Shekhar Jha
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