On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:03, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > Antonio Gallardo wrote: > > >Bruno Dumon dijo: > > > > > >>The convertors in Woody are for translating between string and object > >>representations. > >> > >>It has been proposed before to add some casting methods to the > >>datatypes, for example: > >>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=106776875918689&w=2 > >> > >> > > > >Thanks Bruno for your answer. > > > >I saw the mail yesterday. Thanks for the link. Now, I am willing to do > >that, but need your help. > > > >The receipt of this: > > > >1- As Sylvain suggested I will add 2 new methods to the Datatype interface. > >2-Add this methods in o.a.c.woody.binding.ValueJXPathBinding > > > > > > I had a deeper look at JXPath, and this doesn't seem to be so easy, as > JXPath doesn't provide us a way to know the type of the data that has to > be set. > > Furthermore, JXPath relies on an internal type conversion mechanism in > TypeUtils, which can be extended with a TypeConverter. But this > TypeUtils accepts only one TypeConverter, which is stored in a static > variable !!
Hmm, maybe best to fix that in JXPath. I think ideally we should be able to provide a custom TypeConvertor on each setValue call. -- Bruno Dumon http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
