[DIGESTER-81] New rule to build DOM nodes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

• Bugzilla Id: 13023
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Christopher Lenz
• Created: 26/Sep/02 16:48
• Updated: 09/Mar/07 20:39
• Resolved: 09/Mar/07 20:39

Description

This patch adds a new Rule implementation to Digester: NodeCreateRule.
It can create DOM Element and DocumentFragment nodes that are populated with all
XML content contained by the matching element, and pushed on Digester's object
stack.

A use case for this would be: you want to process XML documents that allow "ANY"
content under certain nodes. Using a NodeCreateRule, Digester can capture that
information in a DOM node for further processing by the application.
Specifically, I've needed this feature for WebDAV XML request processing, but
there has also been a related request on the commons-user list.

Included in the patch is the NodeCreateRule class with full javadocs, as well as
a corresponding test-case and a modification to build.xml to include that test-case.

NOTE: this enhancement depends on the enhancement request in COM-182.

[I've already posted this patch to commons-dev - adding it here to so that it
doesn't get lost]