Well that's no fun when you have this nice purpose-build API right at your 
hands :).
I ended up doping the encodeAsXML-thing. It worked well enough that it only 
took a couple of seconds to fix up the resulting XML file, et voila — 250 new 
attributes in 50 entities :).

Cheers,
- hugi


> On 5 Sep 2020, at 14:11, Michael Gentry <blackn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm naive enough that I'd just use a macro in Emacs to modify the mapping...
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 5:14 AM Hugi Thordarson <h...@karlmenn.is> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I'm adding some standard attributes to a few dozen tables. Since they all
>> look more or less the same, I'd like to do it programmatically.
>> That's easy enough, but I'm wondering what the best way would be for me to
>> write out the project after adding the attributes.
>> 
>> I've currently got something like:
>> 
>> XMLEncoder encoder = new XMLEncoder( new PrintWriter( new File(
>> "new.map.xml" ) ) );
>> map.encodeAsXML( encoder, new EmptyConfigurationNodeVisitor() );
>> 
>> …which works kinda-sorta. But I imagine there's a better or more idiomatic
>> way using something like ProjectLoader or ProjectSaver?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> - hugi

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