Waldhoff, Rodney wrote:
>> With the standard Digester ObjectCreateRule, you could set up rules like
>> this:
>> digester.addObjectCreate("object", "java.util.Date", "className");
>> digester.addSetProperties("object");
>
>
> This is the part that bothers me. While it's nice that the resulting XML
> document is relatively concise, self documenting and very readable (none of
> which are features of JOCL), I've got to set up the Digester to be able to
> read the configuration file. Can I set up a generic ObjectCreateRule that
> works with any class (e.g., classes not known at compile time)?
>
> (I guess I can probably figure that out on my own, let me poke around a bit,
> or feel free to answer.)
>
> - Rod
With the XmlMapper from Tomcat, it was just a matter of a classname
attribute on the element. I would think that Digester is the same way,
or at least provides the same functionality ;-)
Scott Sanders
