Editing Custom XML

XBean supports custom XML languages for different libraries of Java code. This page details some guidelines.

References

To refer to another POJO inside XBean you can use the # character to refer to another bean in the same file. This is similar to the <property name="foo" ref="bar"/> style in Spring.

e.g. consider this example

<beans xmlns:p="http://xbean.org/schemas/pizza">

  <bean id="topping" class="java.lang.String">
    <constructor-arg>
      <value>Salami</value>
    </constructor-arg>
  </bean>

  <p:pizza id="pizzaService" myTopping="#topping" cheese="##Edam" size="17"/>
  
</beans>

The topping bean is configured using the regular Spring way; the pizza bean is configured using XBean XML; however notice that the pizza bean is configured via the reference #topping. If you really do want to configure a property with a string which starts with # then escape it as ## as we are doing with the cheese property in this example. i.e. the cheese property will be set to the string "#Edam"

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