Re: Rocks: XMLC: Generating accessor methods

[markd@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Ryan,

Ryan Benjamin Shaw <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Currently, if XMLC encounters a Node id that
> is not a legal Java identifier, it does not
> generate an accessor method for that Node.

> 1) Give a warning when the compiler encounters
> this: ("Illegal Java ID: Not generating accessor") 

Actually, if one supplies the -methods option, it will
produce a listing of the IDs that don't have methods 
generated. Just realized that this is not actually
documented.

The logic here was that a page will contain a lot of 
ids that are used for other reasons (javascript) and
that always generating warnings would be annoying.
 
> 2) Come up with a standard way of converting
> strings that are legal id attribute values but
> not legal Java identifiers to legal Java identifiers.

This is really the thing to do and something that would be part of the
meta-data file.  Essentially, one could provide a mapping for an id to the
name use in the generated method.  This could be used for any id, not just
invalid ones.

> What do you guys think?

Gotta start getting that XMLC DTD together...

Mark
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