On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 04:51:35PM -0700, Christopher Oliver wrote:
> Leszek Gawron wrote:
> 
> >Sorry to bother you privately but I did not get the answer on cocoon group 
> >and
> >I see you're the main JXTG developer.
> >
> >My question is: Is there any real reason that jx:attribute is not 
> >implemented?
> >Something that would work as xsl:attribute or xsp:attribute to allow
> >generation of dynamic content of an attribute?
> >     lg
> >
> > 
> >
> Please direct all questions to the dev list. The only reason is that it 
> seems hard to implement it efficiently. Consider:
> 
> <foo>
>  <jx:attribute name="bar" namespace="http://www.bar.org"; value="${bar}"/>
>  <jx:if test="{$fubaz > 1}">
>       <jx:attribute name="xyz" value="100"/>
>   </jx:if>
>   <jx:forEach var="item" items="${items}"/>
>       <jx:attribute name="${item.name}" value="${item.value}"/>
>   </jx:forEach>
>   ...
> </foo>
> 
> The start element event for <foo> must be buffered until all potential 
> jx:attribute tags have been processed. Since these are within 
> conditional blocks and loops determining when that is the case in an 
> efficient way isn't easy.
It looks like you have to buffer <foo> until you reach another startElement or
get a endElement for </foo>.Am I missing sth?
        lg
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