Kent, On 7/6/05, Kent Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Achim Hügen <achim.huegen <at> gmx.de> writes: > > However, I still have a question in mind: Why they are called "rules"? > They don't seem to have any pre-condition at all. They are just > applied in the order they are listed. Shouldn't they be called > "actions"? >
This is for historical reasons. The mapping from XML to Java objects was inspired by Digester (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/). Here's a snippet from the description of Digester: "Basically, the Digester package lets you configure an XML -> Java object mapping module, which triggers certain actions called rules whenever a particular pattern of nested XML elements is recognized." Note the use of "action" in the description. Regards, --knut --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
