Because it is an either/or circumstance. As far as i know you can't require one or the other in a DTD. Also, if i remember correctly larry had done this some time ago and wound up finding that there was a problem. Perhaps he can expound.
Brandon On 1/4/06, Nathan Maves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason that either (resultMap | resultClass) are not required > by the dtd for a sqlmap file? > > Nathan > > > On Jan 4, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Daan de Wit wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Today I found myself stuck with a very weird problem. A queryForList > returned an empty list while executing exactly the same query in the SQL > Query Analyzer returned one result. I thought that maybe the SQL Profiler > would be more informative about the problem, but query and the parameter > were both the same as I used in the Query Analayzer. > > It turned out that I forgot to set a resultmap for the select-statement. > Wouldn't it be better to throw an exception if no resultmap or resultclass > is found for a select? Or maybe the xml could be changed to something like > this: > > <select id="mySelect" resultType="map" resultId="myResultMap"> > > I realize that the names I chose for the attributes are not that good, but > they are good enough to get the idea. > > > > Regards, > > Daan > > >