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Is this one of those areas where we could really use an additional (optional) interface on DOM elements? I usually just call normalize on the sub-tree in question and then generate the XML while doing a tree transversal. But it would be nice to check each individual element and see if it implements a write interface, which would indicate that it is taking responsibility for the XML composition for itself and its subordinate elements. Bill -----Original Message----- From: david@m... <david@m...> To: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:07 PM Subject: RE: Generating XML >Michael.Kay@i... writes: > > > My normal way is to have a "writeXML()" method on the relevant > > object, which calls writeXML() methods on its component objects, > > and so on. A lot depends on how close the java object structure is > > to the desired XML document structure. > >A more elegant (if slightly more verbose) alternative is to have a >separate XMLWriter interface, so that you can write the XML out in >different ways (with or without preserving internal entity references, >etc.). > >This approach can work very nicely if the component object implements >the Visitor design pattern: the writer can act as a visitor, and the >XML component object can invoke the correct method in the writer >object based on the component's type. > > >All the best, > > >David > >-- >David Megginson david@m... > http://www.megginson.com/ > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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