[digester] XML rules, set-properties-rule, and ignoring missing properties

The javadoc on SetPropertiesRule: isIgnoreMissingProperty()            Are attributes found in the xml without matching properties to be ignored?  implies that one should be able to write a rule such as ***set-properties-rule ignoreMissingProperty=true/*** or ***set-properties-rule

Re: [digester] XML rules, set-properties-rule, and ignoring missing properties

Hi Paul, thanks a lot for reporting, very appreciated. Can you fill a JIRA issue for that? As a Digester best practice, I suggest you to not go through the XML rules definition but, if you need a more compact way to express rules, refer to rules binder, which is pretty faster than mapping the