Accessing Components through Id Attributes

<..topxml.xml ..>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<frame size="300,200" title="id map"
                       DefaultCloseOperation="JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE">
   <panel constraints="BorderLayout.CENTER">
      <textfield id="a" text="top" columns="20" />
      <panel include="xml/includedxml.xml#b" />
      <panel import="xml/importedxml.xml" />
      <panel load="xml/loadedxml.xml" />
   </panel>
</frame>

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<..includedxml.xml ..>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<panel id="b">
<textfield id="b.1" text="included" columns="20" />
</panel>

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<..importedxml.xml ..>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<panel id="c">
<textfield id="c.1" text="imported" columns="20" />
</panel>

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<..loadedxml.xml ..>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<panel id="d">
<textfield id="d.1" text="loaded" columns="20" />
</panel>

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<..access map ids ..>

Map map = swix.getIdMap();
Set set = map.keySet();
Iterator  it = set.iterator();
while( it.hasNext() ){
    String key = (String) it.next();
    JTextField tf = (JTextField) map.get(key);
    System.out.println( key + "  " + tf.getText() );
    tf.setText( key + ": " + tf.getText() );
}

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<..ExternalPanels ..>

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.AttributeSet;
import org.swixml.SwingEngine;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.io.File;

public class ExternalPanels extends JPanel {
    String name=null;
    private SwingEngine swix = new SwingEngine (this);
    public void setImport (String name)  {
      this.name=name;
      try {
         Container jc = swix.render( new File(name) );
         add ( jc );
      } catch ( Exception e ){ System.out.println( e); }
    }
    public void setLoad(String filename) {
      try {
        swix.insert( filename, this );
      } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println( e.getMessage() );
}  } }

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<..IdList ..>

import javax.swing.*;
import org.swixml.*;
import java.util.*;

public class IdList {
   public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception {
     Object obj  = new Object();
     SwingEngine swix = new SwingEngine( obj );
     TagLibrary tl = swix.getTaglib();
     tl.unregisterTag("panel");
     tl.registerTag("panel", ExternalPanels.class);
     swix.render( "xml/topxml.xml" ).setVisible( true );
     <.access map ids .>
} }

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11.16 Accessing Components through Id Attributes