I'm not sure if this idea is new, but over the weekend I developed a rather simple to use XML parser that uses annotations and POJOs (plain old java objects) to directly load XML data into objects.
I was wondering if the apache xml team would be interested in such a thing, as a simpler cousin to xerces (actually, you can do virtually everything, except process generic unknown XML, with the annotation idea - that covers just about everything except XML editors, which you'd have to write using DOM/Xerces. it also abstracts away the major differences between DOM and SAX; it can be used in both 'event-based' and 'fully loaded in memory' configurations with virtually exactly the same code). I've hacked a tutorial together that takes you through creating a parser for ATOM in about 10 minutes, here: http://www.zwitserloot.com/java-boilerplate/mox/tutorial.html I don't have any particular wishes as to what happends to the code that's there - public domain, or apache license, it's all fine by me. java 1.5 required, obviously - annotations make it tick. -- ------------------- "Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex." -- Reinier Zwitserloot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
