RE: HTML to XML, vice versa

Well, I'm starting out small and am returning a vector that contains a
class.  Here's an example...

First, I have MyClass which is really a representation of one "record" from
a file.  Each attribute represents a field:

public class MyClass extends java.lang.Object
{
  protected String status = null;
  protected String sendID = null;
  protected String sendType = null;
  protected String sendBatch = null;
  protected String receiveID = null;
}

Then I have another class that is a vector of MyClass's.  

public class MyClassList extends MyClass
{
  protected Vector myClassList = new Vector();

  public MyClassList(String sendID, String recID, String batch, int
numberToLoad)
  {

// build SQL, run statement using sendID, recID and batch as selection.
Load "numberToLoad" records into the vector //

      while ((rsControl.next()) && (count < numberToLoad))
      {
        count++;
        MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
        myClassList.status = rsControl.getString("STATUS").trim();
        myClassList.sendID = rsControl.getString("SND_ID").trim();
        myClassList.sendType = rsControl.getString("SND_TYPE").trim();
        myClassList.sendBatch = rsControl.getString("SND_BATCH").trim();
        myClassList.receiveID = rsControl.getString("REC_ID").trim();

        myClassList.addElement(myClass);
      }
    }

    public MyClass getField(int index)
    {
      return (MyClass) myClassList.get(index);
    }

  }

No that I have a "table" object (this one is simple I understand, not a
vector of vectors, but that will come later) I want to be able somewhere to
say:

MyClassList myClassList = new MyClassList(sendID, receiveID, numberToLoad)

Then I want to have a method that will convert something to xml or html
(toXML() or toHTML());

    for (int i = 0; i < myClassList.size(); i++)
    {
      myClassList.getField(i).status.toXML();
      myClassList.getField(i).sendID.toXML();
      myClassList.getField(i).sendType.toXML();
      myClassList.getField(i).sendBatch.toXML();
    }


etc.. etc...

That's why I asked if I could extend String() because I'd like to be able to
to .toXML() or toHTML() without haveingn to put it into another "object".
This probably makes no sense.  :)

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:27 AM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: HTML to XML, vice versa
> 
> 
> Good questions.  Why don't you show us what your decorator 
> class looks like
> and maybe we can help a little...
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-java400-l@midrange.com
> > [mailto:owner-java400-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Stone, Brad V (TC)
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:03 AM
> > To: 'JAVA400-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: HTML to XML, vice versa
> >
> > I can understand how you would control whether to use HTML 
> or XML or any
> > other decorator.  With HTML this is easy because <td> is 
> always <td>.
> >
> > But, if you want to use XML, where do you get the tag names from?
> >  Are they
> > hard coded into the decorator?  If you have a vector of 
> vectors (ie a
> > "table" of data) you have no way of knowing what the data 
> actually is.
> > Unless of course each object in the vector element is really a data
> > structure with different descriptors such as field name, XML tag
> > name, HTML
> > table classname, the data itself, etc...
> 
> +---
> | This is the JAVA/400 Mailing List!
> | To submit a new message, send your mail to JAVA400-L@midrange.com.
> | To subscribe to this list send email to JAVA400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
> | To unsubscribe from this list send email to 
> JAVA400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
> | Questions should be directed to the list owner: joe@zappie.net
> +---
> 
+---
| This is the JAVA/400 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to JAVA400-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to JAVA400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to JAVA400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner: joe@zappie.net
+---