> My understanding of XML style guidelines is that the above is > considered > poor form
Agreed. I was just trying to illustrate my point with the smallest change possible. Adding <entry> makes it much clearer and easier to edit. > I assume <Book> should create some sort of Book object, and > you ultimately > want to call map.put(book.getTitle(), book), right? If so, > it sounds like > time to write your own custom Rule implementation -- easy and fun! :-) > You're right, that is a more elegant solution than a Proxy class which has to be public. I wish I had seen this example earlier. Thanks so much for the help. K.C.
