On Feb 22, 2005, at 10:27 AM, David Jencks wrote:
I'm not sure this is such a good idea.
It's going to require changing the gbean schema to allow an any element and mixed content in a gbean attribute element. In principle I object strongly to mixed content.
What's the big deal. This is a leaf node (from our view) so if they want to have plain text or XML that seems fine to me; it is not like html were we would need to pick our bits out of it. If they actually want mixed content (xhtml), that would be fine with me also. It seems reasonable to me to say, this is your slot for your data, put what ever you want in it.
I think the extra complications indicate that the CDATA solution is much much simpler. Is there a problem with it? What are you trying to pass in? What are you doing with the results? Do you want an XmlObject, a string, a DOM element, a STAX stream...?
I believe my original code supported creating a DOM. IIRC, I just get the content as a string and pass it to the java beans converters.
-dain
