This seems an awful lot like ADO.NET's DataSet class. Throw in a schema and build swing TableModels off of it and you are nearly there.
;-) --- Ken Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the interest and enthusiasm. > I think extending this functionality to RowSet, > CachedRowSet, etc. is a great > idea. > > At the risk of being redundant, I'd like to first > make sure that we are talking > about the same thing ... or I'd at least like to > better understand the > differences that there might be. > > What if I prepared a brief package for your review > of the interfaces and > classes, a sample of the XML String converted from a > ResultSet, a test script > using the XmlDocumentAsResultSet classes and some > documentation of the approach > and materials? > > I could use the feedback to report back to you about > any differences. > > Please let me know if this is a reasonable first > step. > > Thanks! > Ken > > > --- Erwin Bolwidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, James Strachan wrote: > > > > > Hi Ken > > > > > > Funnily enough I was having a similar discussion > with some of the JSPTL > > > (standard tag library for JSP) expert group this > morning - that XPath is a > > > nice way to work with SQL result sets. > > > > Not only result sets -- any non-XML data that > could be represented as XML. > > If you've had to do file conversions to connect to > legacy systems, you'd > > appreciate it if you could to any logical > (business or otherwise) > > translations using an XSL stylesheet, and not to > worry about the dirty > > details of reading/writing CSV, EDI, HL7, > Unix-password or whatever files. > > > > Jaxen makes this easier. But a mapping tool that > dynamically maps to > > jaxen would be cooler. Mapping tools that exist > (either for SQL tables or > > non-XML data formats) usually convert the data > completely to a DOM tree, > > or java objects. But with a jaxen Navigator, you > can keep the original > > data in its original object structure, and create > a view on it for jaxen. > > > > > [...] > > > > > Certainly making a Navigator (say) that used a > ResultSet as the 'model' > > > sounds an interesting idea! > > > > But a ResultSet is like a cursor, isn't it? The > same ResultSet object can > > be pointed to different rows. Since jaxen > Navigators use Objects as keys, > > you can't directly use the ResultSet, but you need > to create small pointer > > objects that say which row/column they point to. > > > > - Erwin > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Jaxen-interest mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Jaxen-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest
