Re: [cinjug-users] Splitting tiles-config.xml (Struts)

["Edward Sumerfield" <esumerfd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We used weblogic and ended up skipping the entity include for just this 
reason. This rachel package shows a few ways to address the problem but we 
chose to skip the convenience instead and work with a 1200 line times def 
file. Of coarse at that length we ended up adding logs of comments to help 
us find our way around.

   http://rachel.sourceforge.net/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amol Deshmukh" <adeshmukh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:28 AM
Subject: [cinjug-users] Splitting tiles-config.xml (Struts)


> *** WARNING: XML question ***
> *** WARNING: Long post ***
>
> Hi,
>
> I was exploring ways to organize tiles-config.xml
> into multiple smaller files. The simple approach I
> am taking (well... trying to) is to have one main
> file and use XML entity references to the smaller
> parts.
>
> So that I have one main tiles-config as:
>  tiles-config-main.xml
>
> which defines my "super-definitions" from which my
> other <definition>s "extend".
>
> The actual definitions are put in multiple files
> (sort of based on modules, but we are not using
> struts modules).
>
> So that I have files like:
>  tiles-config-a.xmlf
>  tiles-config-b.xmlf
>
> which I amd trying to include in the main file as:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
>  "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration//EN"
>  "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_1_1.dtd";
> [
>  <!ENTITY a-config SYSTEM "tiles-config-a.xmlf" >
>  <!ENTITY b-config SYSTEM "tiles-config-b.xmlf" >
>
> ]>
> <tiles-definitions>
> <!-- super definitions go here -->
> .
> .
> <!-- 'import' definitions from fractional xml files
>      that have series of <definition> tags
> -->
> &a-config;
> &b-config;
> </tiles-definitions>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> The problem I am having is getting JBoss3.2 to resolve
> the entity reference at startup without having to give
> and absolute file path. With the path specified as above,
> JBoss tries to look for
>  "d:\jboss-3.2.6\bin\tiles-config-a.xmlf"
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^__ my JBOSS_HOME directory
>
> Clearly, the part that needs to change is the ENTITY
> declaration, but I have tried few possiblities and it
> just doesnt seem to work.
>
> Other ways I have tried to so far:
>  <!ENTITY a-config     SYSTEM "file:tiles-config-a.xmlf" >
> &
>  <!ENTITY a-config     SYSTEM "tiles-config-a.xmlf" NDATA tiles-a >
>
> Any ideas/suggestions? How do others organize large
> tiles-config.xml files?
>
> Thanks,
> ~ amol
>
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