Ok, after spending over 2 hours trying to debug this can I get some eyes on this please? Does anyone see anything wrong with this method ran against the attached datafile: protected void initMappings(InputStream input) { Digester digester = new Digester(); digester.setDebug(1); digester.setValidating(false); digester.push(this); digester.addObjectCreate("factory-selector/factory", "com.company.Factory"); digester.addSetProperties("factory-selector/factory"); digester.addSetNext("factory-selector/factory", "addFactory", "com.company.Factory"); digester.addObjectCreate("*/patternset", "com.company.PatternSet"); digester.addSetProperties("*/patternset"); digester.addSetNext("*/patternset", "addPatternSet", "com.parlano.web.struts.mapping.PatternSet"); digester.addCallMethod("*/pattern", "addPattern", 0); try { digester.parse(input); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("DAMN ERRORS"); e.printStackTrace(); } } PLEASE, any help would be greatly appreciated ... I can't figure out why NONE of my objects are getting created nor are they getting populated. No methods are getting called ...I get no exceptions no nothing ... I put print statements around things and it is getting through all of this. I also tried breaking the XML in the datafile and it breaks and errors out so I know it is parsing the file. ANY help would be appreciated, Thanks ... Sean
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <factory-selector> <factory name="ie"> <patternset comparator="and"> <pattern>MSIE</pattern> <pattern>Windows NT</pattern> </patternset> </factory> <factory name="default"> <patternset comparator="and"> <pattern>Mozilla</pattern> <pattern>Linux</pattern> </patternset> </factory> <factory name="ns"> <patternset comparator="or"> <pattern>Mozilla/5</pattern> <pattern>Netscape6/</pattern> <pattern>Mozilla</pattern> </patternset> </factory> <factory name="default"> <patternset comparator="or"> <pattern>MSPIE</pattern> <pattern>HandHTTP</pattern> <pattern>AvantGo</pattern> <pattern>DoCoMo</pattern> <pattern>Opera</pattern> <pattern>Lynx</pattern> <pattern>Java</pattern> <pattern>Nokia</pattern> <pattern>UP</pattern> <pattern>Wapalizer</pattern> <pattern>*</pattern> </patternset> </factory> </factory-selector>