Re: [FreeMarker-user] freemarker xml/xslt functions

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

>Another way is just to expose a POJO that does it and returns an
>instance of org.w3c.dom.Element or whatever (actually we support JDOM
>and DOM4J as well) and that will get wrapped transparently into a
>NodeModel object that can be used from the template side.

So you suggest above something like this (much left of for sake of list)

public class Helper {
    public Document load(String xml) {
       File inFile= new File(xml);
       Document docNode = builder.parse(inFile);

                TemplateModel document = new NodeListModel(docNode);
                TemplateNodeModel docNodeModel = NodeModel.wrap(docNode);
                HashMap root = new HashMap();
                root.put("document", document);
       // do your thing, return a loaded xml document

    }
}
.... then, in your code where you do a transformation, simply create an 
instance of Helper and add it to the FreeMarker context and transform?

Would this then allow the syntax in the template of
<#assign newdoc=$helper.load($base, $.node.Child.xmlfrag) />
${newdoc.somenode.@someattrib}
Would it work like so, or no?

Thanks, Russ