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Re: Logging Question

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Novice wrote:
> I have a question about the standard Java logging.
> 
> I am using the Java classes to create an XML log. Is there any way that I 
> can insert an extra line in the XML generated by the logging classes 
> programmatically? That extra line is NOT a log record, it is an 
> <xsl:stylesheet> tag. I have a specific XSL file that I'd like to format 
> the XML with and it would be rather convenient to have the program insert 
> that line in the XML file. 

Why do you want to format the XML?

> I've poked around the API and the documentation on logging but don't see 
> anything like this. It seems like a simple enough thing that I'd like to 
> believe this kind of thing was provided for....

Simple doesn't mean that a class is designed for it.  Otherwise there'd only be 
one class in all of Java that did all simple things.  So obviously the 
reasoning that it's "simple enough ... that I'd like to believe this kind of 
thing was provided for.... [sic]" is fallacious.  (So is the premise that it's 
a simple thing, but that fallacy is irrelevant because even if it were simple 
it wouldn't matter.)

In fact I've never heard of such a thing being built in to j.u.logging and it 
would surprise the hell out of me if it were.  Anyhow I, too, was unable to 
find anything like that built in to j.u.logging, probably because it really 
isn't there.

OTOH, perhaps you can take the log file output and post-process it.  That would 
depend on the transformation you intend to perform and its use case.  If those 
support the approach, you can use Java's standard XML tools to do the 
transformation.  Or you can use XSLT to post-process the file.

-- 
Lew

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Logging Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2011-12-31 21:27 +0000
  Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-31 17:25 -0500
    Re: Logging Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-01 01:46 +0000
  Re: Logging Question Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-31 14:53 -0800
    Re: Logging Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-01 01:59 +0000
      Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-31 22:14 -0500
        Re: Logging Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-01 05:44 +0000
          Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-01 07:59 -0500
            Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-01 08:14 -0500
            Re: Logging Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-01 19:06 -0400
              Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-01 18:24 -0500
              Re: Logging Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-01-03 15:33 +0000
                Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-03 11:21 -0500
                Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-03 11:35 -0500
                Re: Logging Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-01-04 14:42 +0000
                Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-04 11:43 -0500
                Re: Logging Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-04 20:28 -0400
                Re: Logging Question Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> - 2012-01-05 11:28 +0200
                Re: Logging Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-01-08 14:08 +0000
                Re: Logging Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-09 19:47 -0400

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