Ironically, things get very inflexible when you specify flexible="true".
Here are some other issues I've found:
JIBX-402 <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JIBX-402>: JiBX fails when
abstract type is used with flexible="true"
JIBX-397 <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JIBX-397>: Allow setting
flexible="true" and ordered="false" at the same time
I don't really understand why though. It seems like there should be a flag
in the code somewhere that says whether to reject or ignore unknown tags,
and why simply changing that flag causes all these other problems.
-Archie
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Bob Smith <ob_tr...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using JiBX for a couple months on basic XML files and I am
> really pleased especially by the performance.
>
> I am now trying to bind an RSS format.
> My issue is that, in RSS, the list of items is not embedded in an <items>
> tag.
> Example:
> <rss>
> <channel>
> <item />
> <item />
> <item />
> </channel>
> </rss>
>
> My binding is as follows:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <binding name="binding" package="my.jibx.rss">
> <mapping name="rss" class="my.jibx.rss.Feed">
> <structure name="channel" field="channel" map-as="channel" />
> </mapping>
> <mapping abstract="true" type-name="channel" class="my.jibx.rss.Channel"
> ordered="false" flexible="true">
> <value style="element" name="link" field="link" usage="optional" />
> <value style="element" name="title" field="title" usage="optional" />
> <value style="element" name="description" field="description"
> usage="optional" />
> <collection field="items" create-type="java.util.ArrayList"
> ordered="false" />
> </mapping>
> <mapping name="item" class="my.jibx.rss.Item" ordered="false"
> flexible="true">
> <value style="element" name="title" field="title" usage="optional" />
> <value style="element" name="description" field="description"
> usage="optional" />
> <structure name="image" field="image" type="my.jibx.rss.Image"
> usage="optional" ordered="false">
> <value style="element" name="url" field="url" />
> </structure>
> <structure name="enclosure" field="enclosure"
> type="my.jibx.rss.Enclosure" usage="optional" ordered="false">
> <value style="attribute" name="url" field="url" />
> <value style="attribute" name="type" field="type" usage="optional" />
> <value style="attribute" name="length" field="length" usage="optional"
> />
> </structure>
> </mapping>
> </binding>
>
>
> Since I do not want to handle some elements that are unnecessary to me and
> that others apps may add with their own namespace, I try to use
> flexible="true" on the Channel mapping.
> However, I cannot use flexible="true" on the Channel mapping because the
> collection of items has no name. Error:
>
> Error: All child components must define element names for flexible='true';
> on collection element at (line 10, col 83, in rss-binding.xml)
>
>
> And I cannot use a name since there is no eclosing tag in RSS.
> How can this type of collection be handled using JiBX?
>
> Thank you for your help.
> Bob
>
>
>
>
>
>
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