OK, thanks a lot! will do it in a short while, just the time to ASF-ize the codebase :P best, -Simo
http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ 2012/4/23 Francesco Chicchiriccò <ilgro...@apache.org>: > On 23/04/2012 16:35, Simone Tripodi wrote: >> Hi all guys, >> >> One thing I've always found a little "annoying" - "boring" is maybe >> the more appropriate therm - of SAX APIs is that, when crating even >> simple XML snippets via ContentHandler APIs, the following boilerplate >> code has to be written: >> >> +--------+ >> ContentHandler handler = ... ; >> contentHandler.startDocument(); >> contentHandler.startElement( "", "project", "project", new AttributesImpl() >> ); >> contentHandler.startElement( "", "modelVersion", "modelVersion", new >> AttributesImpl() ); >> >> String modelVersion = "4.0.0"; >> contentHandler.characters( modelVersion.toCharArray(), 0, >> modelVersion.length() ); >> >> contentHandler.endElement( "", "modelVersion", "modelVersion" ); >> contentHandler.endElement( "", "project", "project", new AttributesImpl() ); >> contentHandler.endDocument(); >> +--------+ >> >> I think you would agree with me that to obtain the following snippet >> >> +--------+ >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <project> >> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> >> </project> >> +--------+ >> >> that code is maybe an overkill :P >> >> So, at company I developed a small SAX wrapper that would help on >> transforming the previous code in the following: >> >> +--------+ >> ContentHandler handler = ... ; >> SAXEventsBuilder.newDocument( transformerHandler ) >> .start( "project" ) >> .start( "modelVersion" ).body( "4.0.0" ).end() >> .end() >> .endDocument(); >> +--------+ >> >> isn't more "sexy"? It still supports elements that require >> namespaces/attributes but reduces the lines of code for hardcoded XML >> documents - especially when closing elements. >> >> It also allows users to add manually-generated elements in an existing >> ContentHandler: >> +--------+ >> ContentHandler handler = ... ; >> SAXEventsBuilder.wrap( transformerHandler ) >> .start( "modelVersion" ).body( "4.0.0" ).end() >> .start( "groupId" ).body( "org.apache.cocoon.sax" ).end() >> .start( "artifactId" ).body( "cocoon-sax" ).end() >> .start( "version" ).body( "3.0.0-beta-1" ).end() >> +--------+ >> >> without starting/closing the document. >> >> If you like it, I would be pleased to commit it in the Cocoon repo - >> as a side question: which component that would fill? > > Hi Simone, > looks fine and helpful to me, +1 > > I'd put it in cocoon-sax, under org.apache.cocoon.sax.util package. > > Cheers. > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member > http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ >
