Re: [digester] i'd like to contribute - here's my new feature idea

2002-12-15 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 12:58 AM, Sean Schofield wrote: Perhaps I can make a contribution in the area of improved documentation (perhaps example programs) when the time comes for that? the time is always right for improved documentation and examples :) - robert -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [digester] i'd like to contribute - here's my new feature idea

2002-12-12 Thread Sean Schofield
I don't want to squash Sean's enthusiasm, but I don't yet understand the need for this modification. Don't worry about my enthusiasm. I'm just throwing this out as an idea. I can take thoughtful criticism. If we nix this idea, I have some other ideas that I could contribute (eventually folks

Re: [digester] i'd like to contribute - here's my new feature idea

2002-12-12 Thread Joe Germuska
by all means, submit a patch. but i'd prefer an attribute name to be passed in rather than using the first attribute. (i have a feeling that the order of attributes can be parser dependent.) when the attribute name isn't present, then just don't create anything. since ObjectCreateRule already h

Re: [digester] i'd like to contribute - here's my new feature idea

2002-12-12 Thread robert burrell donkin
hi sean by all means, submit a patch. but i'd prefer an attribute name to be passed in rather than using the first attribute. (i have a feeling that the order of attributes can be parser dependent.) when the attribute name isn't present, then just don't create anything. since ObjectCreateRule

Re: [digester] i'd like to contribute - here's my new feature idea

2002-12-12 Thread Sean Schofield
So what if I wrote a patch to deal with this limitation (I described such a patch in an earlier reply but it didn't seem to make it to the list). The patch would be as follows: - Add a no-argument constructor to ObjectCreateRule - Modify the begin() method of ObjectCreateRule so that if there i

Re: [digester] i'd like to contribute - here's my new feature idea

2002-12-12 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 07:59 PM, Sean Schofield wrote: All, Is this the correct newsgroup (just in case this wasn't a typo and that you weren't aware of the point - this is really a mailing list. some helpful people elsewhere mirror it into news.) for me to be raising these ki

[digester] i'd like to contribute - here's my new feature idea

2002-12-12 Thread Sean Schofield
Greetings, I have been using the great software developed by the jakarta team for some time now. I have found it very useful and I would like to contribute something. I'd like to start with the commons digester and I have a specific idea. Let me know if people would like to see this implemen