[digester] accessing parent data and matching dynamic elements

[__matthewHawthorne]

I finally have found the chance to use Digester, and it's pretty 
impressive.  However, there are a few issues that I'm confused about, 
and would appreciate the help.

Here's my XML:

<table name="pmw">
  <record id="1" name="pmw1"/>
  <record id="2" name="pmw2"/>
  <record id="3" name="pmw3"/>
</table>
<table name="por">
  <record id="5" type="6"/>
  ...
</table>
I'm using Digester to define my data to bulk load using commons-sql.

for each <record>, I want to do:

DynaBean bean = DynaSql.newInstance(../@name)

and then set the record's attributes into the corresponding DynaBean.

1) How can I do this?  It seems that I can't access the parent element 
to use it's "name" attribute.

I realize that I can change my XML to accomplish this by adding a table 
attribute for each record. ( <record table="" id="" name=""/> )   But, I 
would like to avoid this redundancy.

2) Originally, I tried doing it in this way:

<pmw id="" name=""/>
<por id="" name=""/>
<anotherType id="" name=""/>
But I couldn't find a pattern to match each element. In looking at the 
examples, I'm thinking I could maybe do:

Digester.addFactoryCreate("?", MyFactory.class) using ExtendedRulesBase

or

Digester.addFactoryCreate("*", MyFactory.class) using the RegexRules?

Sorry for the abundance of questions.  In the meanwhile, I'll keep 
looking at the examples and doing experiments to try and figure this out.

Thanks!



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