Re: XML Fragements in widgets

[Reinhard Poetz]

Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Reinhard Poetz wrote:
I have the need for a widget that contains XML fragments. Those 
fragements should also be streamed as XML and not as strings. How can 
I achieve this? My first (and only) idea is implementing a new widget 
type (XMLWidget). Or are there better solutions?

I've had for months an unfinished and therefore uncommitted XML datatype 
on my hard disk and the associated convertors. Want to finish them?
Sounds interesting but I'm not sure if this solves my problem. If I have a 
widget that has the value "<someXML>bla</someXML>" I need it serialized as

<fi:field>
  <fi:value>
    <someXML>bla</someXML>
  </fi:value>
</fi:field>
and not as
<fi:field>
  <fi:value>
    &lt;someXML&gt;bla&lt;/someXML&gt;
  </fi:value>
</fi:field>
After looking at Field.generateSAXFragement() (line 405) I don't think that a 
special datatype or a convertor can help here as only the string representation 
of the value is passed to the content handler:

contentHandler.characters(stringValue.toCharArray(), 0, stringValue.length());
Therefore my conclusion that I need a special XML widget that can produce more 
than character events, right?

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