Thanks for the input Jason
I'm not at all opposed to using jelly for a templating engine for
merging a bean/map to a template.. The problem i'm trying to solve is
parsing a template into a admin form..
There are a few problems such as where to store the meta data such as
size of a text field and such like, and thus my mind as natururally
moving towards a xml/xsl solution. That or i create my forms from the
model and just use the templates to render the output, which does seem
more sensible, and thus you solution could well be ideal.
I'll have a longer think on it..
Mark
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:18:41 +1300, Jason Lea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Lowe wrote:
>
>
>
> >Hello
> >
> >I've been looking at the EL api and I'm wondering if it can be used
> >like folk use velocity, for email templates and such like.
> >
> >Does EL lend itself well to this? or was it onlt made as something to
> >be parsed and then compiled?
> >
> >Any wikis to get me going would be appeciated.
> >
> >Mark
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> I use Jelly for email templates. So that I can use the same EL
> language/system I use with JSPs in developing HTML/plain text email
> templates.
> Found that you can embed Jelly in your code using the following:
>
> ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>
> Embedded embedded = new Embedded();
> embedded.setOutputStream(os);
> embedded.setVariable("user", user);
> embedded.setVariable("searchList", searchList);
> embedded.setVariable("results", results);
>
> embedded.setScript(Global.loadResource("resources/alert-html.jelly"));
>
> boolean bStatus = embedded.execute();
>
> if (!bStatus) {
> String errorMsg = embedded.getErrorMsg();
> log.error("Error in jelly: "+errorMsg);
> }
> return os.toString();
>
> in the jelly script you can use the normal ${user.name} etc from the
> variables I stored above
>
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> Jason Lea
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