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Hi, In a java servlet environment, I have developed a mapping of the HTTP request into a result tree fragment through sax events and I'd like to have your feedback on the structure I am proposing. Currently, this structure is something which, translated into XML, would be like : <request> <headers> <accept-charset>iso-8859-1,*,utf-8</accept-charset> <accept-language>en</accept-language> <host>xmlbinder</host> <cookie>Apache=192.127.127.3.2835094787032722</cookie> .../... </headers> <variables> <REQUEST_METHOD>GET<REQUEST_METHOD> <URI>/result-tree/example.xml</URI> <SCRIPT_NAME>/xmlbind/XSLServlet</SCRIPT_NAME> .../... </variables> <parameters> <x>2</x> <y>3</y> </parameters> </request> (It could be extended to the cookies as well.) The names of the headers, variables or parameters is used as the name of the entities. The path to the variable "URI" is therefore : "/request/variables/URI". Would it be better to have a common entity name and something like : <parameter name="x">2</parameter> The path to the variable "URI" would then be : "/request/variables/variable[@name='URI']". If it's the case and if we have different entity names for the parameters, headers, variables (and later on cookies), do we need to keep a structured path to these different entities since a path of "/request/variable[@name='URI']" would already be sufficient to differentiate the variable "URI" from a possible parameter "URI" ? And of course, If I am reinventing the wheel and if a XML schema to represent a request context has already been defined, I'll be very glad to know it ! Related links : http://downloads.dyomedea.com/java/examples/xslservlet/result-tree/ (the example with its code) http://www.egroups.com/group/xml-tips/info.html (newly created discussion list for these "tips") Thanks for your feedback. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://www.dyomedea.com http://www.ducotede.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/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Unsubscribe by posting to majordom@i... the message unsubscribe xml-dev (or) unsubscribe xml-dev your-subscribed-email@your-subscribed-address Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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