I've just commited the code for a new Swing TableModel which allows XML information to be displayed in a Swing JTable easily.
org.dom4j.swing.XMLTableModel. You can explicitly construct an XMLTableDefinition via java code (as demonstrated in samples/swing/JTableDemo.java) or an XML document can be used to define the table model itself. e.g. here's an example table model to display information from the periodic table in a Swing JTable. <table select="/PERIODIC_TABLE/ATOM"> <column select="NAME">Name</column> <column select="SYMBOL">Symbol</column> <column select="ATOMIC_WEIGHT" type="number">Weight</column> <column select="ATOMIC_NUMBER" type="number">Number</column> <column select="OXIDATION_STATES">Oxidation States</column> </table> You can see examples of these in xml/swing. In addtion the use of XPath variables can be used to refer to other column values in a row, such as notice the use of $Name in the following table which displays the servlets available in a web.xml document... <table select="/web-app/servlet"> <column select="servlet-name">Name</column> <column select="servlet-class">Class</column> <column select="../servlet-mapping[servlet-name=$Name]/url-pattern">Mapping</column> </table> There is a sample program to display a JTable for a given table definition XML config file and a source XML documet at samples/swing/JTableTool.java The above is all available in CVS and the daily build. I hope any Swing developers out there might find this useful. James _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev
