Hi Patrick, I thought it was more intuitive, sounds we have to update de doc. Anyway, to reply to your questions:
1) just create the Digester instance, set the RegexRules and start binding your rules: Digester digester = new Digester(); digester.setRules( new RegexRules( new SimpleRegexMatcher() ) ); digester.addCallMethod( "collection/doc/categ/*", "myMethod", 0 ); 2) yes, as reported in the javadoc I pointed: "* matches any sequence of none, one or more characters" like in the bash syntax; if you want to apply kind of filters, bind the rules with restrictive patterns (prefixes/postfixes); ie. given the rule: digester.addCallMethod( "collection/doc/categ/patt*", "myMethod", 0 ); collection/doc/categ/patt -> matches collection/doc/categ/pattern -> matches collection/doc/categ/patteRn -> matches collection/doc/categ/pattern -> matches collection/doc/categ/paBtern -> does not match HTH, have a nice weekend, Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Patrick Diviacco <patrick.divia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, > > 1) Is there any tutorial explaining how to use it ? > > 2) In my case, if I have more than one child, is the pattern detected > multiple times ? > > help is very appreciated! > > > > > On 14 May 2011 01:36, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi Patrick, >> follow the Konstantin's suggestion, that's the way to achieve it. Have >> a read also to >> http://commons.apache.org/digester/apidocs/index.html?org/apache/commons/digester/SimpleRegexMatcher.html >> >> HTH, >> Simo >> >> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >> http://www.99soft.org/ >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Konstantin Kolinko >> <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 2011/5/13 Patrick Diviacco <patrick.divia...@gmail.com>: >> >> mhm, sorry.. just to be more clear. >> >> >> >> Is there a way in Commons Digester to trigger a method only if a xml >> element >> >> has a child ? >> >> >> >> i.e. >> >> digester.addCallMethod("collection/doc/categ/*", "myMethod", 0); >> >> >> >> This doesn't work. >> > >> > The "*" is allowed in the prefix only, as documented in >> > >> > >> http://commons.apache.org/digester/commons-digester-2.1/docs/api/org/apache/commons/digester/RulesBase.html >> > >> > You may try to use a different rules matcher. See "RegexMatchers" chapter >> here: >> > http://commons.apache.org/digester/commons-digester-2.1/core.html >> > >> > >> >> But it is actually what I need. If element <categ> has at >> >> least a child, then trigger myMethod >> > >> > Best regards, >> > Konstantin Kolinko >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org >> > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org