Address and name formatting in the HCL Commerce tools uses XML
files to encapsulate the address or name format control information. The XML files contain address
or name control information such as what fields are required, the number of lines that constitute an
address or name format, the sequence and nature of address or name attributes that must display on
one line, and so on.
About this task
The following is a high-level description of the address or name format approach that HCL Commerce tools follows:
Procedure
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Create an XML file to hold your address format information.
<de_DE>
<line0 elements="nickName"/>
<line1 elements="title,space,firstName,space,lastName"/>
<line2 elements="address1,space,address2,space,address3"/>
<line3 elements="postalCode,space,city"/>
<line4 elements="region,comma,space,country"/>
<line5 elements="phoneNumber"/>
</de_DE>
For a sample implementation, see
workspace_dir\wc\xml\tools\order\addressFormats.xml
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Use the tools framework XMLUtil.get(Hash table tree, String path) to parse your XML file. This
method is one of the utility classes to read and write XML files and strings contained in the tools
framework. When reading XML files and strings, these parsers turn the XML data into a
hash table.
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Use the address format control information stored in the hash table created in the previous
step, to display the formatted address attributes to the end user as shown in the following example:
CommerceAccelerator.war\tools\order\OrderBillingAddressPage.jsp.