Hi Patrick, follow the Konstantin's suggestion, that's the way to achieve it. Have a read also to http://commons.apache.org/digester/apidocs/index.html?org/apache/commons/digester/SimpleRegexMatcher.html
HTH, Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/5/13 Patrick Diviacco <patrick.divia...@gmail.com>: >> mhm, sorry.. just to be more clear. >> >> Is there a way in Commons Digester to trigger a method only if a xml element >> has a child ? >> >> i.e. >> digester.addCallMethod("collection/doc/categ/*", "myMethod", 0); >> >> This doesn't work. > > The "*" is allowed in the prefix only, as documented in > > http://commons.apache.org/digester/commons-digester-2.1/docs/api/org/apache/commons/digester/RulesBase.html > > You may try to use a different rules matcher. See "RegexMatchers" chapter > here: > http://commons.apache.org/digester/commons-digester-2.1/core.html > > >> But it is actually what I need. If element <categ> has at >> least a child, then trigger myMethod > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
