On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > Hi team, > > I'd like to add the use of leniency to JXPath expressions in > JXTemplateGenerator: currently, if a path does not exist, a nice > exception is thrown. This may be good in some circumstances (avoids > endless hair pulling sessions to finally discover a small typo), but is > also required in some situations where the template writer _knows_ that > a path may not exist. > > Here's what I want to do: > - add a global "lenient-xpath" sitemap parameter to the generator. This > allows to set a global leniency mode (default is false, meaning > exceptions are raised) > - set leniency always to true on test instructions (<jx:if> and <jx:when>) > - add an optional "lenient" attribute to the <jx:out> and <jx:forEach> > statements (would default to the sitemap parameter value above). > > What do you think?
+1 -- Giacomo Pati Otego AG, Switzerland - http://www.otego.com Orixo, the XML business alliance - http://www.orixo.com
