RE: [Springframework-developer] non-String keys for map entries

[Alef A. <al...@jt...>]

> 2.  add ref to DTD attr list for map/entry
> <map>
>   <entry ref="myBean">
>     <ref bean="myTarget"/>
>   </entry>
> </map>
> 
> Both suffer from losing the ability to declare 'local' or 'bean' but that
> might not matter since neither may be capable of being validated via DTD
> anyway - I'm no DTD expert.

I like this one, but for consistency purposes, I'd add the local and bean
anyway, even if no DTD checking is possible (but it IS as far as I know).

So:

<map>
	<entry bean="myBean">
		<ref bean="bla"/>
	</entry>
	<entry local="myBean">
		<ref bean="bla"/>
	</entry>
</map>

Alef