[jdom-interest] Using variables in XML files

[Isaac Sparrow]

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On Wednesday 15 May 2002 06:20 am, Laurent Bihanic wrote:
> Isaac Sparrow wrote:
> > One solution would be to find and replace these variables while the XML
> > file is being parsed (although I don't know how).
>
> You could use a SAX filter (see org.xml.sax.XMLFilter interface) to scan
> attribute values in startElement(), recognize the "${...}" pattern (maybe
> using regexp), evaluate the expression and replace it by the variable
> value. Of course this assumes you are using SAXBuilder to create the JDOM
> documents.
>
> The samples/sax directory of the JDOM distribution contains examples of SAX
> filter.
>
> Laurent
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Perfect. This is exactly what I was hoping for. 

Thanks again,
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