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The following page has been changed by SimonKitching: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/Digester/FAQ The comment on the change is: Add info about extracting nested XML as a string ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It might be possible to create a custom "filtering" rule that has a child rule, and fires that child rule only when the appropriate conditions are set. There - are no examples of such a solution, however. + are no examples of such a solution, however. A possible solution is to perform an XSLT transform to filter out or rename elements that match certain conditions before using Digester to process the document. @@ -422, +422 @@ If you are aware of other solutions to this issue, please add that information here. + == How do I get some xml nested within a tag as a literal string? == + + It is frequently asked how some XML (esp. XHTML) nested within a document can be extracted + as a string, eg to extract the contents of the "body" tag below as a string: + + {{{ + <article> + <title>An article about something</title> + <body> + <p>Some xhtml data</p> + <p>Some more xhtml data</p> + </body> + </article> + }}} + + If you can modify the above to wrap the desired text as a CDATA section then things are easy; Digester will simply treat that CDATA block + as a single string: + + {{{ + <article> + <title>An article about something</title> + <body> + <![CDATA[ + <p>Some xhtml data</p> + <p>Some more xhtml data</p> + ]]> + </body> + </article> + }}} + + If this can't be done then you need to use a !NodeCreateRule to create a DOM node representing the body tag and its children, then + serialise that DOM node back to text. + + Remember that Digester is just a layer on top of a standard XML parser, and standard XML parsers have no option to just stop parsing + input at a specific element - unless it knows that the contents of that element is a block of characters (CDATA). + --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
