[FreeMarker-user] freemarker xml/xslt functions

[Russell S. <rus...@ho...>]

Hello all.

I am sick of xslt. I have managed to use digester to convert my XML to POJO 
to use Velocity on the frontend. I could just use freemarker the same way. I 
just started looking at freemarker, and I love the XML support. Sooooo much 
better than anakia. It looks like I could skip the digester -> pojo part 
too.

I have made great use of the document function in my xslt and am having 
trouble doing document() in FreeMarker. I just started with the ant task 
(maybe that is the problem) and altered the supplied template example as 
such:

<#assign 
loaded=.node['document("file:///java/freemarker-2.3.4/examples/ant/xml/faq.xml")']>

The intent is that loaded is now the same as .node just as a proof of 
concept. This does not work, I get

freemarker.template.TemplateModelException: org.jaxen.FunctionCallException: 
Failed to parse document for URI: file://c:/java/projects/acms/src/fro
nt-end/home.xml
at 
freemarker.ext.dom.JaxenXPathSupport.executeQuery(JaxenXPathSupport.java:120)
at freemarker.ext.dom.NodeModel.get(NodeModel.java:279)
at freemarker.ext.dom.DocumentModel.get(DocumentModel.java:93)......

What am I doing wrong? How best to accomplish this? I'm using Jaxen-full and 
dom4j-1.4

As background, I have a cms that produces lots of XML, and to keep the size 
of the XML down, I have broken up my XML into smaller files and then include 
references to those files in one XML.
Sort of like this:
<Page>
<editpage>/edit/editPage.jsp?page_id=1</editpage>
        <pageId external="false" id="true" type="long" 
maxlength="12"><![CDATA[1]]></pageId>
        <title external="false" id="false" type="java.lang.String" 
maxlength="100"><![CDATA[homepage]]></title>
        <htmlTitle external="false" id="false" type="java.lang.String" 
maxlength="250"><![CDATA[]]></htmlTitle>
        <keywords external="false" id="false" type="java.lang.String" 
maxlength="1000"><![CDATA[]]></keywords>
        <description external="false" id="false" type="java.lang.String" 
maxlength="3000"><![CDATA[]]></description>
<Flashs>
  <Flash row="0" id="1" type="controller" 
external="true">/Flash/1/Flash.1.xml</Flash>
  </Flashs>
<PageFlashs>
  <PageFlash row="0" id="1" external="true" start="" end="" 
type="controller">/PageFlash/1/PageFlash.1.xml</PageFlash>
  </PageFlashs>
<Polls>
  <Poll row="0" id="17" type="opinion" 
external="true">/Poll/17/Poll.17.xml</Poll>
  <Poll row="1" id="18" type="opinion" 
external="true">/Poll/18/Poll.18.xml</Poll>
  <Poll row="2" id="14" type="opinion" 
external="true">/Poll/14/Poll.14.xml</Poll>
  <Poll row="3" id="15" type="opinion" 
external="true">/Poll/15/Poll.15.xml</Poll>
</Polls>
</Page>
The paths are relative and the configuration of the web app passes in the 
base so that most XPath calls are like this: 
document(concat($xmlbase,$root/Polls/Poll[1]))

Any help is appreciated.  FYI: In the download, your build.xml for the ant 
task classpath ref, it is better suited to be written like so:

       <classpath>
        <fileset dir="${basedir}../../../lib">
            <include name="*.jar" />
        </fileset>
      </classpath>

Then folks can just drop in their jar file if they want to, like i had to 
with my jaxen-full.jar and dom4j-1.4.jar

Thanks again.

russ