Reading Configuration Data in an XSP

[Brent L Johnson <br...@bjohnson.net>]

I'm sure this question has been posed to this list, but
I searched around on the archives all the way back to 2002
and didn't find anything (at least with the keywords I
was searching for).

I'm using the authentication framework to handle logins,
I then store the person's userID in the session.  I've got
a config.xml file that I want to hold user configuration
data.  I.e.

<config>
    <user id="1">
        <someconfigtag>blah</someconfigtag>
    </user>
</config>

In XSP - I'd like some conditional cinclude tags.  For example,
if "/config/user[@id='1']/someconfigtag = 'blah'" I want to add
a cinclude. If its not 'blah' then dont.

One solution would be to just use Java in the XSP to read
the file into a Document, then run some Xalan XPath queries
to test for the tags.  This is a kludgy way to do it though.

Is there a better way to do this?  Is anyone doing something
similar?  Can I read data from an external XML file in an XSP?

I could just use the config.xml as the generator then
use XSL to add the cinclude tags, then perform the cinclude
transformer after that point in the pipeline.  The problem
is, I need the generator be to XSP because I'm doing more
than just adding these cincludes.

Thanks,

- Brent


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