Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Leszek Gawron wrote:
Jonas Ekstedt wrote:
I think the reason for taglibs are that rendering an object is often more complicated than simply outputting a value. For example, suppose you want to render a calendar covering the current month. This is a typical component that would lend itself well as a tag class. The template writer would simply do:
<calendar:month current-date="${myDate}"/>
The tag might output something like this:
<month value="2"> <week value="12"> <day value="5" name="Monday"/> <day value="6" name="Tuesday" current="true"/> <day value="7" name="Wednesday"/> ... </week> ... </month>
Later transformations would transform it into a table or whatever. This type of calendar would be very hard to do for a template author without the help of a tag library.
I have completely no time these days so I was just waiting for the single post to say: Cannot agree more here :)
I cannot disagree more.
${myDate as month}
will do the above without mentioning tags (and will be much more Dreamweaver-friendly).
Hehe, this is exactly what I outlined in my "What do we need taglibs for?" post. The fight is merely about tags vs brace-expansion syntax, but not about the underlying feature.
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* wiki renderers currently I do something like to parse wiki syntax:
function radeoxToSAX( str, consumer ) {
var radeoxStr = radeoxEngine.render( str, radeoxContext );
var buffer = new java.lang.StringBuffer("<root>" );
buffer.append( radeoxStr )
buffer.append( "</root>" );
var is = new Packages.org.xml.sax.InputSource( new java.io.StringReader( buffer.toString() ) );
var parser = null;
var includeConsumer = new org.apache.cocoon.xml.IncludeXMLConsumer( consumer, consumer );
includeConsumer.setIgnoreRootElement( true );
try { parser = cocoon.getComponent( Packages.org.apache.excalibur.xml.sax.SAXParser.ROLE );
parser.parse( is, includeConsumer ); } finally {
if ( parser != null ) cocoon.releaseComponent( parser );
}
}
<jx:macro name="radeox-string"> <jx:parameter name="value"/> <jx:set var="ignored" value="${cocoon.session.radeox( value, cocoon.consumer )}"/> </jx:macro>
OH COME ON! you can do a generator and cinclude a subpipeline for that.
Or ${wikistring as radeox} :-)Sylvain
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