Good day all,
Please could someone explain the rationale behind having (e.g.) Element.add
(Attribute) return void, rather than a reference to self? This precludes
chaining of add()s --
Element newEl = (new DefaultElement ("price")).add (new DefaultAttribute
("currency", "GBP")).add (new DefaultAttribute ("amount", "10"));
This is considerably more succinct than the current code, where the adds
must be separated: either
1.
Element newEl = (new DefaultElement ("price")).add (new DefaultAttribute
("currency", "GBP"));
newEl.add (new DefaultAttribute ("amount", "10"));
// Yuk - orthogonality out of the window
or 2.
Element newEl = (new DefaultElement ("price"));
newEl.add (new DefaultAttribute ("currency", "GBP"));
newEl.add (new DefaultAttribute ("amount", "10"));
// Tidy but verbose.
This could also affect the syntax of the existing addText() and addCDATA()
- both take a String and return void, they could perhaps return self
(Element) instead?
Only addEntity() seems non-orthogonal - this takes a String and returns
_Entity_, a reference to the Entity object just created.
---
I actually want to insert hard-coded XML fragments into an existing
document, and it's becoming very long-winded. I'd be happiest to do
String xmlFragment = "<complexType mixed = 'true'> <sequence> <element
ref='xyz' /> </sequence> </complexType>";
Element newEl = parser.parse (xmlFragment);
parentEl.add (newEl);
I need to have namespaces behaving sensibly, so that element xyz inherits
the namespace of parentEl, etc. Is there any way to do this? Can I use
SAXReader.read() to parse fragments? I haven't yet managed to get this to
work, so I'm manually creating DefaultElements and DefaultAttributes and
chaining them together.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks to all - I _like_ this library.
Regards,
Thomas.
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