Hi, there is not a straight-forward solution for this problem, as XML artefacts such as <area> and <country> are not simply structural artefacts, but carry additional information.
For the <cities>, you could have a look at the location attribute as described at http://www.castor.org/reference/html-single/index.html#xml.mapping.mappingfile.locationattribute but for the remainder, I guess you will have to use custom-developed FieldHandlers. Regards Werner Guillaume Schaeffer wrote: > Hello, > > > I am currently trying to use castor for XML binding > The problem is that I want to use the factorization properties of XML > without having to create collections in mybinded classes. Here is an > example: > I have the following XML: > <cities> > <area zone="1"> > <country code="FR"> > <city> > <code>NCE</code> > <zipcode>06000</zipcode> > </city> > <city> > <code>PAR</code> > <zipcode>75000</zipcode> > </city> > </country> > <country code="DE"> > <city> > <code>BER</code> > <zipcode>123456</zipcode> > </city> > </country> > </area> > <area zone="2"> > <country code="US"> > <city> > <code>NYC</code> > <zipcode>111111</zipcode> > </city> > <city> > <code>LAX</code> > <zipcode>222222</zipcode> > </city> > </country> > </area> > </cities> > > Areas, countries and cities can all be repeated. > I would like to map this XML into the following class: > > public class City { > public int Zone; > public String Country; > public int Zipcode; > public String Code; > } > > The example would then produce a cities class having a collection of > City > objects as follows: > City object 1 : Zone=1, Country=FR, Zipcode=06000, Code=NCE > City object 2 : Zone=1, Country=FR, Zipcode=75000, Code=PAR > City object 3 : Zone=1, Country=DE, Zipcode=123456, Code=BER > City object 4 : Zone=2, Country=US, Zipcode=111111, Code=NYC > City object 5 : Zone=2, Country=US, Zipcode=222222, Code=LAX > > I haven't found a basic way to do this until now. What I can do easily > is to > create a cities class with a collection of areas, having themselves a > collection of countries... > Is there a direct way to get City objects as described ? > > > Regards, > > G. Schaeffer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
