On 2001.11.27 16:37:20 -0500 Anatoly Akkerman wrote: > > > > Can Castor merge nested attributes from all the files into one object? > For > > instance, there are elements under ejb-jar/enterprise-beans/entity and > > jboss-cmp/enterprise-beans/entity that should all end up in > > result-dd/enterprise-beans/entity. > > Not that I know of. Doing XSLT, would, probably be the best way for such > processing. Castor can only instantiate a new object tree that represents > a given XML file. It cannot 'update' an existing tree from this > 'incremental' unmarshalling. In general it is an impossible task. Think > about it. Castor (or any other software) would have to know which pieces > match where. Say, in the case of ejb descriptors, it would not be enough > to match and <entity> </entity> from ejb-jar.xml with <entity> </entity> > from jboss.xml. You would have to match _names_ and whatever else to make > sure you are updating descriptor object for the right entity bean. This > already is _semantic_ interpretation of what stands behind the data in > the > XML file. You can only write a custom combiner that would take 3 object > trees (say, from ejb-jar.xml, jboss.xml and jaws.xml) and produce a > combined tree, matching appripriate descriptors by hand. > > Actually, I don't know if XSLT will to that for you, it also does not > know > anything about the semantics of the XML files you are combining. It seems > to me, this must be a custom combining solution.
Well, I think I figured out all the hard parts of using xslt to combine them in this way. Since all the xml can be validated by a dtd I think it will work out fine. Castor instead of jaxb might be an option still, though. I'd prefer to use a standards based solution but if licensing makes it unavailable... david jencks > > Anatoly. > > > > > Just having copies of all 3 docs in the super-jboss is probably easier > with > > including an xml entity;-) > > > > david jencks > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
