Hi! Is it possible to add rules to the ruleset of a digester after the parse has been started? The reason for that is, that it would enable us to put the knowledge about child objects within something like a configure() method of a just created object.
For example if someone creates a complicated valve with subobjects in tomcat, the knowledge that a valve needs to be created is for example in org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextRuleset. Now if someone needs a Valve with subobjects configured via digester he/she has to change the ContextRuleset class. If it would be possible to call a configure method on the specific implementation of a class, it could itself add the rules for childs. A class could implement a ProvideRules interface defined in the digester package to let the digester know that it wants to provide additional rules. Comments please?
