[Jboss-svn-commits] JBL Code SVN: r4004 - labs/jbossrules/trunk/documentation/manual/en/Chapter-Rule_Language

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Author: mic...@jb...
Date: 2006-04-28 07:39:54 -0400 (Fri, 28 Apr 2006)
New Revision: 4004

Modified:
   labs/jbossrules/trunk/documentation/manual/en/Chapter-Rule_Language/Section-XML.xml
Log:
updates

Modified: labs/jbossrules/trunk/documentation/manual/en/Chapter-Rule_Language/Section-XML.xml
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--- labs/jbossrules/trunk/documentation/manual/en/Chapter-Rule_Language/Section-XML.xml	2006-04-28 10:48:46 UTC (rev 4003)
+++ labs/jbossrules/trunk/documentation/manual/en/Chapter-Rule_Language/Section-XML.xml	2006-04-28 11:39:54 UTC (rev 4004)
@@ -241,6 +241,24 @@
     </section>
   </section>
 
+  <section>
+    <title>Automatic transforming between formats (XML and DRL)</title>
+
+    <para>Drools comes with some utility classes to transform between formats.
+    This works by parsing the rules from the source format into the AST, and
+    then "dumping" out to the appropriate target format. This allows you, for
+    example, to write rules in DRL, and when needed, export to XML if
+    necessary at some point in the future.</para>
+
+    <para>The classes to look at if you need to do this are: <programlisting>XmlDumper - for exporting XML.
+DrlDumper - for exporting DRL.
+DrlParser - reading DRL.
+XmlPackageReader - reading XML.
+</programlisting> Using combinations of the above, you can convert between any
+    format (including round trip). Note that DSLs will not be preserved (from
+    DRLs that are using a DSL) - but they will be able to be converted.</para>
+  </section>
+
   <para>Feel free to make use of XSLT to provide all sorts of possibilities
   for XML, XSLT and its ilk are what make XML powerful.</para>
 </section>
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