On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:34:38 +0100, COGOLUEGNES Arnaud
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> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone has means of dividing Struts config files into separate files,
> so that one main file can include all separate files?
>
> I've been working on quite big applications where some code is automatically
> generated. Sometimes Struts config files (struts-config.xml, validator.xml
> and tiles-defs.xml for example) grow fast and developpers must add their own
> stuff in middle of automatically generated stuff, which becomes messy.
>
> I thought about Struts module but actually it doesn't really suit my needs.
> So I tried to divide the files into separate files thanks to XML entities.
> So I can have one main struts-config.xml where developpers can work on and
> this file can include other files (to define action mappings or forms). Here
> is what I did:
>
> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
> "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
> "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd"; [
> <!ENTITY generated-forms SYSTEM "generated-forms.xml">
> ]>
>
> ...
>
> <form-beans>
> <!-- my generated forms -->
> &generated-forms;
>
> <!-- developpers' forms -->
> ...
>
> It works quite well and really clean the mess. I tried the same thing with
> tiles-defs.xml but it seems the XML parsing is different: it was trying to
> get the included file in my IDE (Eclipse) directory and actually does the
> same thing if I change the DTD to SYSTEM. So it's useless as it can look in
> the project WEB-INF directory. With validation.xml, it doesn't have any DTD,
> so my trick can't work. I also tried XInclude with something like:
You can solve the problem of merging the generated content with the
developer content by keeping the files separate.
You can specify multiple tiles-def.xml for the "definitions-config"
property like so
<set-property property="definitions-config"
value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs-generated.xml,/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" />
You can have a tiles definition xml file dedicated for the auto
generation and as many required for developer definitions.
Similarly for Validation you can specify multiple xml files like so
<set-property property="pathnames"
value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,
/WEB-INF/validation.xml-generated.xml, /WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
You have have the same thing for struts-config.xml; ("comma specifying
multiple struts-config files") which effectively fall under a single
module (and are called segments)
So, keeping the files separate and specifying as a comma separated
list is one of the solutions to consider
>
> <xi:include href="myFile.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
>
> but it doesn't include anything.
>
> Does anyone tried to divide their config files like this and managed to do
> it? Or has a XML guru any mean to include XML into another?
>
> Thanks,
> Arno
>
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