Re: Pollo Plugin

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 20:08, Manuel Sontag wrote:
> Hi Pollo-People !
> 
> I need to evaluate some kind of xml input tool for an application in my 
> company. For this reason, I discovered Pollo. Now I have a question, 
> concerning the Plugin ability of Pollo.
> What I'd like to have is some kind of Plugin which allows me to present 
> the user a dropdown list for some fields, from which he can choose a 
> value. The list is populated by data from the same xml file or from some 
> other. I think the ant view, alreaday shipped with Pollo provides a 
> similar feature ?

yes, actually it's a feature of the pollo schema. Look at
conf/schema/antschema.xml and notice the readvaluesfrom attributes which
contain xpath expressions.

> Is it possible with Pollo to write this kind of Plugin and do you think 
> it's an easy task ?

yes and yes, depending on your programming abilities.

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Bruno Dumon                             http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
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