Re: [Simple-support] Element with both attributes and text body?

[Niall G. <gal...@ya...>]

Hi,

Seems like a nice way to do it. However I assume that such an annotation could not be used with elements? For instance:

<root>
   <element attr="a">
      Text
      <element2>
         Text
      </element>
      Text
   </element>
</root>


For the above what would the text be? I think Ill probably implement the @Text annotation with the restriction that it can not be used with elements, and only one @Text annotation per class. So the only possible structure would be:

<element attr1="1" attrn="n"> Text</element>
 
Is this how .NET handles it?

Niall Gallagher

----- Original Message ----
From: Arne Claassen <arn...@cl...>
To: Niall Gallagher <gal...@ya...>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:20:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Simple-support] Element with both attributes and text body?

Niall,

The way .NET handles it, is with an Attribute (i.e. Annotation) called 
XmlTextAttribute like this:

[XmlText()]
public string text

So an annotation equivalent could be

@Text()
private String text;

The catch with this Annotation is that it can only be used once in any 
class.

cheers,
arne

Niall Gallagher wrote:

>Hi Arne,
>
>Well this is something I was considering, however this comes down to a
>serialization versus deserialization issue. It would be simple to
>deserialize such a structure. For instance: 
>
> 
>
>@Root(name="myelement") 
>
>public class MyObject { 
>
> 
>    @Attribute(name="someAttribute") 
>    private String someAttribute; 
>
> 
>   
>   private String text; 
>
> 
>   
>   public MyObject(String text) { 
>      
>      this.text = text; 
>   
>   } 
>
>} 
>
> 
>
>The difficulty is in serialization, how could the decision be made to
>serialize? I guess an additional annotation or interface telling the
>framework what action to take could be done? Currently though I have
>decided not to add support for this, at least until I can think of a
>decent way to implement it. 
>
>Suggestions are welcome on how to approach this.
>
> 
>
>Niall
>            
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Arne Claassen <arn...@cl...>
>To: sim...@li...
>Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:34:48 AM
>Subject: [Simple-support] Element with both attributes and text body?
>
>I just found Simple today. Excellent work on the project. Nice, simple, 
>small. I usually work in C#, so Simple's syntax is very comfortable to 
>me compared to .NET's attribute driven mark-up.
>
>Of course, I've already hit a stumbling block. Is there a way to define 
>a class that has both Attributes and body text for an Element? I.e. I'm 
>trying to create a class to represent:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><message guid="ABDB9C3E-31B5-09B5-6E0F-5BC5F86BF5C7" type="default" 
>utime="1175098850078">
>  payload
></message>
>
>The closest I've figured out is:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><message guid="ABDB9C3E-31B5-09B5-6E0F-5BC5F86BF5C7" type="default" 
>utime="1175098850078">
>  <data>payload</data>
></message>
>
>
>thanks,
>arne
>
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