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Dion Almaer On August 13, 2004 @ 09:14 AM
Working with XML has been notoriously difficult. You normally do not want to drop to the level of SAX or DOM, so many open source projects have come around to help us out. Groovy has a lot of good XML support itself, and this article Goes Into The Details of How To Sucks, Munge, and Spew Out Xml.Conclusion
XML is pretty cool stuff, and the more we use it, the more we need to think about how to make it easier to use. We need to think about ways to reduce the XML infrastructure work for ourselves and our customers.
Now, I do not seriously think that people will start replacing XSLT with Groovy code. But I do think that this article should spur your imagination with ideas about how you can use a flexible scripting language like Groovy to simplify your application and to make it more extensible. When integrating Groovy into your application is as simple as creating an interpreter and asking the class loader for a class, you have to think about all of the things you can do in the script layer as part of rapid prototyping, things that can ...................
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Getting Groovy with XML
