On 10/11/05, David G. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, > > > See, after all these years, I really wanted was to > > split files up. Modules don't gain me anything, do > > they? I know (or I think) when Craig wrote Struts 0.x, > > he had an action.xml which did something similar.... > > Now I could create file of just actions and use XML > > ENTITIES to include them, but I never see people doing > > that solution. Is it not well-known or frown upon? > > I'd only heard once on this list about the XML entities trick. Personally, > I'd prefer that one like that if I were creating anything large enough to > warrant breaking the configuration down into multiple files/modules. :)
Entities are a standard XML thing. Here is another trick, though it is a bit offtopic. Say, you want to output data to XML. And you have a regular structure of XML elements, like this: <body> <element>some stuff</element> <element>some more stuff</element> <element>event some more stuff</element> <body> You can do that in an XML file, but you cannot simply append to the file, because you always need to close <body> to keep XML well-formed. So, here is what you do: header.xml: ------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE MYDOCUMENT [ <!ENTITY content SYSTEM "content.xml"> <!ELEMENT BODY (RECORD*)> ]> <BODY>&content;</BODY> content.xml: ------ <RECORD>Some stuff</RECORD> <RECORD>Some more stuff</RECORD> <RECORD>And some more stuff</RECORD> Voila. Now you can append <RECORD> elements to the content.xml file, and resulting document will stay well-formed. Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
