[Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal

[James Mitchell <jm...@telocity.com>]

Martin (and others)

On a suggestion by Craig, I had a look at the commons resources
XMLMessageResources.  It appears (and I could be wrong) that this
implementation expects a structure similar to this:
(I couldn't find any samples or test data, so I just guessing by browsing
the code)

<messages>
  <message key="some.key">Some Value</message>
</messages>

or is it...

<messages>
  <message key="some.key" value="Some Value"/>
</messages>


How do you handle special characters in the values? (<, >, ")



[Proposal] (Sort of)
Would it be feasible to allow an open structure?
What I mean is....what about allowing a structure like this:

<index>
  <heading en="MailReader Demonstration Application Options"
           fr="Options D'Application De Démonstration De MailReader"/>
  <logon   en="Log on to the MailReader Demonstration Application"
           fr="Entrez à l'application de démonstration de MailReader"/>
  <registration en="Register with the MailReader Demonstration Application"
           fr="Inscription à l'application de démonstration de MailReader
"/>
  <title   en="MailReader Demonstration Application (Struts 1.1-dev)"
           fr="Application De Démonstration De MailReader (Struts 1.1-dev)
"/>
  <tour    en="A Walking Tour of the Example Application"
           fr="Une excursion de marche de l'application d'exemple"/>
</index>


I have a feature list a mile long that I am working through, so I'm
nowhere close to being finished.

If I complete this, is it feasible to add it to sandbox resources or struts?
If not, then I will drop it and work on other issues (pending Struts bugs).



James Mitchell
Software Engineer/Struts Evangelist
http://www.open-tools.org


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