-- Eduardo
..............................................
http://emmartins.blogspot.com
http://redhat.com/solutions/telco
2011/3/28 Vilius Panevėžys <vilius@elitnet.lt>:
> I've realized my mistake in declaring the ENTITY.
>
> Entities must be declared inside a DOCTYPE declaration for root element of
> the document:
> ====== SNIPPET START ======
> <!DOCTYPE deploy-config [
> <!ENTITY commonProp1 "val1">
> <!ENTITY commonProp2 "val2">
> ]>
> ====== SNIPPET END ======
>
> Thanks again for the suggestion, Wozza.
>
>
> --
> Vilius Panevėžys
> Elitnet
>
> On 2011-03-28 14:45, Vilius Panevėžys wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, just tested your suggestion but deployment of the DU fails with a
>> SAXParseException. Not sure I used the entity correctly, what I tried is
>> something like:
>> declaring
>> <!ENTITY cprop "value">
>>
>> referencing
>> &cprop;
>>
>> This fails with an error saying that the document is not well-formed
>> whether I
>> place the ENTITY declaration inside the root node or before it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Vilius Panevėžys
>> Elitnet
>>
>> On 2011-03-28 14:24, WozZa XiNg wrote:
>>>
>>> I believe you could declare an XML entity and reference it within the
>>> document.
>>> May achieve the same goal. Entities can be single characters or entire
>>> fragments.
>>>
>>> Eduardo Martins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sounds a reasonable enhancement, can you contribute with it? :)
>>>>
>>>> -- Eduardo
>>>> ..............................................
>>>> http://emmartins.blogspot.com
>>>> http://redhat.com/solutions/telco
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2011/3/28 Vilius Panevėžys<vilius@elitnet.lt>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> is there a possibility to define constants in deploy-config.xml ?
>>>>>
>>>>> As it's not mentioned in User Guide and AFAICT is not allowed in the
>>>>> XSD
>>>>> schema, I would suggest this as a useful extension. If I'm wrong I'd be
>>>>> interested in learning how to use that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Example use case would be when we have to define multiple RA Entities
>>>>> with
>>>>> numerous properties most of which have identical values for all of them
>>>>> except for only a couple of them that differ in all of the entities. In
>>>>> this
>>>>> case I would prefer to define the common values in a common set of
>>>>> variables
>>>>> (constants) at the top of the file (deploy-config.xml) and reference
>>>>> those
>>>>> in properties section of each of the entities. That's just common sense
>>>>> but
>>>>> it would really ease maintenance of such deployments.
>>>>>
>>>>> The first idea that comes to mind for this is to allow declaring
>>>>> strings,
>>>>> e.g.
>>>>> ====== SNIPPET START ======
>>>>> <!-- [...] -->
>>>>> <!-- section of common properties -->
>>>>> <xs:string name="commonPropertyValue">cpv</xs:string>
>>>>>
>>>>> <!-- [...] -->
>>>>> <!-- properties of a particular RA entity-->
>>>>> <properties>
>>>>> <property name="commonProperty"
>>>>> type="java.lang.String" value="{$commonPropertyValue}" />
>>>>> <!-- [...] -->
>>>>> </properties>
>>>>> <!-- [...] -->
>>>>> ====== SNIPPET END ======
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Vilius Panevėžys
>>>>> Elitnet
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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