Re: [Geotools-devel] Visitor pattern and XML production.

[Ian S. <Ian...@ar...>]

Chris,

>>Ian, this looks great!  Super-elegant implementation of a dope idea. 
Now 
>>do you want to do it with the geotools feature model?

Thanks, much appreciated. I think its very possible to do with the
geotools feature model. I'll give it a shot, maybe today.
  
>> might be nice is to also have it be able to return a string, instead
of 
>> just writing to the output.

The best way to handle that is use a ByteArrayOutputStream. The
Transformer is dependant upon an OutputStream or Writer (or File). You
can obtain the String from ByteArrayOutputStream.toString().

>> Another thing to keep in mind as well is that a formatting option
would be really nice. 

Absolutely, I put the nasty formatting in there just to show the results
off. A nice technique would be to use two different OutputVisitor
classes, one which formats, one which doesn't (instead of if/else
stuff).

Ian