From: "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:50:33PM +0100, James Strachan wrote:
> > Hey Jeff
> >
> > From: "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Is there any way in Jelly to save XML into a variable? It's possible
to
> > > <x:parse var="doc">, but then 'doc' is a Document, not XML. It is also
> > > possible to output XML to a file via the <j:file> tag, but not to a
> > > variable.
> >
> > Just a quick question; what do you want the XML output as. A large
String?
>
> Yes. I'm trying to use Jelly XML output in an Ant script (Anteater, whose
> maintainer is kicking himself for not switching to Jelly months ago;).
:-). I've been kicking myself for not looking closer at Anteater for a while
too.
> It
> seemed simplest to store the XML in a variable. Though actually it might
> be better to make a TaskContainer that plays with Jelly's XMLOutput
> directly.
Interesting. Maybe the JellyTask could play nicer with Ant and just output
its XML in a way that Ant can use as a String or something.
> > > Should I write my own tag?
> >
> > By all means if you like. Though maybe we can just patch the existing
tags.
> >
> > I must admit the <j:file> name is a bit lousy, something like <j:output
> > file="foo.txt"> would have been better.
> >
> > We could refactor the <j:file> tag code right now to support something
> > like..
> >
> > <j:output stream="${response.getOutputStream()}">
> > <some>
> > <x m="l"/>
> > </some>
> > <j:output>
> >
> > which would write the body of the <output> tag to the given stream or
writer
> > etc. This could help in HTTP / Anteater type environments where you have
an
> > OutputStream or Writer where you want the XML output to go to.
>
> Mmm, that would be useful (providing the caller can pass the stream into
> Jelly somehow).
All that it would require would be that the OutputStream/Writer is in the
JellyContext, or an object capable of creating the stream is. So if the
HttpServletResponse object where in the JellyContext as a variable called
'response' then the above example would just work.
If Ant supported object variables, you could put (say) a URLConnection or
whatnot in the Ant Project as a variable and then use it directly from a
Jelly script as shown above.
> Thanks, I'll have a play and see what works.
Cool. Lemme know if there's anything we can do to make things easier from
inside Anteater.
James
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