You can have multiple struts-config files - just specify a comma separated list in the web.xml
See section 5.3.1 Module Configuratiin Files in the user guide: http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/configuration.html#module_config-files http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/configuration.html#dd_config_servlet Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "COGOLUEGNES Arnaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <user@struts.apache.org> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 7:34 AM Subject: Divide config files > 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: > > <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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
