Hi all, I am trying to use Digester in a situation where some elements have mixed content. For example:
<tag name="text">Beginning effective <tag name="variableRef">EffectiveDate</tag>, the new policy will be in effect.</tag> So, currently Digester just appends the characters() method to the body text and then uses it at the endElement() method. The problem is that I need the "Beginning effective " and the ", the new policy..." are actually two specifically different calls to some method, like addNode(). I know it sounds a little like DOM, but that is what I need at the moment. So, how do I accomplish this? I propose changing the characters() method to call rules bodyText() method. To prevent breakage, then I need the default Rule class to append these together and then use it. To access this functionality, a match rule would be something like "tag/text()" (ala Xpath) Any other ideas? I do not want to break backward compatibility (or do we to break compatibility, support more, and then release as 2.0?), but I think that this is necessary to expand the flexibility of Digester. I will soon need to expose attributes, as I am working on a more complete Xpath implementation. That way we can also do something like "tag/@name" (the name attribute of the tag element). As far as I can see, Digester is being used for simple configuration, but stuff like documents that contain mixed content have an impossible time right now, and I really do not want to have to use DOM to do this. FYI, as a random thought, Digester could not actually be used to create a DOM right now, because of this body text issue. Scott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
