Re: [xmlc] building XHTML documents on the fly

I'd use XOM for straight XML stuff.  Very well thought out API by the XML 
guru Elliotte Rusty Harold.
http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/
http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/designprinciples.xhtml

In fact, if you are using XHTML, you could use XOM, albeit not with the 
normal HTML or XHTML DOM API's specific to HTML/XHTML 
elements.  Additionally, once you create the document using XOM, you can 
use the XOM to DOM converter to get a document compatible with DOM parsers.

If you have an existing document to reference, you can create a new empty 
one by....


DOMImplementation domImpl = document.getImplementation();

//HTML DOM doesn't store doctype, so check for that when figuring out the 
document element
String documentElement = document.getDocType() != null ? 
document.getDoctype().getName() : "html";

DocumentType docType = document.getDocType() != null ? 
domImpl.createDocumentType(documentElement, 
document.getDoctype().getPublicId(), document.getDoctype().getSystemId()) : 
null;

String namespaceURI = document.getDocType() != null ? 
"http://some/uri/location/if/necesssary" : "";

//Of course, you can cast Document to whatever sub-Document interface you 
think the document is
Document doc = domImpl.createDocument(namespaceURI, documentElement, docType);


Otherwise, look at the JAXP or DOM3 bootstrapping with 
DOMImplementationRegistry


Jake

At 04:22 PM 3/29/2005 -0800, you wrote:
 >Perhaps a lightweight easy-to-use DOM framework like dom4j is what
 >you're looking for.
 >I used it today to throw together a fast web service that serves up an
 >xml document.
 >
 >-Justin
 >
 >
 >On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:22:43 -0800, Matthew Hixson
 ><[email protected]> wrote:
 >> On Mar 29, 2005, at 1:02 PM, Jacob Kjome wrote:
 >>
 >> >
 >> > Maybe I'm missing something, but you could create an empty document
 >> > via the DOM
 >> > and append any elements you want to it.
 >>
 >> Are there any examples on how to do this?
 >>
 >> > Then, as you say, do a view-source,
 >> > copy that to an HTML document, and then compile that with XMLC.  Keep
 >> > in mind
 >> > what XMLC is all about.  It gives you the ability to have compile-time
 >> > bindings
 >> > to your document.  If you don't require that, then XMLC becomes less
 >> > useful and
 >> > the basic DOM is all you need.
 >>
 >> Yes, I know.  What I've started to notice is that some servlets,
 >> especially if they're just a proof of concept or rough prototype, don't
 >> have that requirement to start with.  The requirement is more along the
 >> lines of "determine whether or not Foo will work."  At some point after
 >> the early development phases have been completed the requirement of
 >> compile time binding to an HTML file usually manifests itself, but not
 >> always.  In the cases where that requirement never arises I can save
 >> myself the hassle of creating the .html file and the ongoing HTML
 >> recompilation.
 >>    -M@
 >>
 >>
 >> > Quoting Matthew Hixson <[email protected]>:
 >> >
 >> >> Does anyone have a way of just creating an XHTML document using XMLC
 >> >> without having to compile an .html file?  What I'd like to do is
 >> >> programatically put together a page like so:
 >> >>
 >> >> XHTMLTableCellElement cell = factory.createTableCell();
 >> >> XHTMLTableRowElement row = factory.createTableRow();
 >> >> row.append(cell);
 >> >> XHTMLTableElement table = factory.createTable();
 >> >> table.append(row);
 >> >> HTMLObject page = factory.createHTMLObject();
 >> >> page.append(table);
 >> >>
 >> >> Is there a way to do this with XMLC currently?  If not, I wonder if it
 >> >> would work to create an HTML page with every HTML component in it,
 >> >> compile that into a massive XMLC object, and use it as a factory by
 >> >> importing the nodes you want from it.
 >> >>    The reason I'd like to do this is that I think it would reduce the
 >> >> prototyping stages of a lot of web development I do because it would
 >> >> eliminate the need to create an HTML file and compile it every time I
 >> >> make a change to it.  I go through this prototyping stage of
 >> >> development quite a few times before getting the HTML the way I want
 >> >> it
 >> >> and going to the effort of making it look good.
 >> >>    If I were to do this I could then just view the source in my
 >> >> browser
 >> >> and save it as an .html file and add the id attributes where they're
 >> >> needed.  Yes, I'd have to change my code to get the XHTML components
 >> >> from the compiled HTML, but I think this would be worth it.
 >> >>    Thoughts?
 >> >>     -M@
 >> >>
 >> >>
 >> >>
 >> >
 >> >
 >> >
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