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Nathan Bubna commented on VELTOOLS-97:
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FlyDOM-ish syntax might be nice to offer in a tool like this.
http://flydom.socianet.com/
> MarkupTool
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>
> Key: VELTOOLS-97
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS-97
> Project: Velocity Tools
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: GenericTools
> Affects Versions: 2.x
> Reporter: Nathan Bubna
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.x
>
>
> As i grow continually more fond of tools and less fond of macros (though
> things are finally starting to look up for macros in 1.6 and the possibility
> of Raghu implementing blockmacros), i find myself starting to wish for tools
> that aid with markup (mostly html or xml). The idea has occurred to me that
> i might find a general MarkupTool for manipulating markup in flexible,
> repeatable ways. The API i have in mind might be used something like this:
> #set( $foo = $markup.foo.attr('bar', 0) )
> $foo
> #if( $foo.bar == 0 )
> $foo.body($text.danger).attr({'black' : 'white', 'zebras' : $crossing})
> #end
> which would output
> <foo bar="0"/>
> <foo bar="0" black="white" zebras="crossing">Danger!</foo>
> It's also not hard to imagine ways to allow default attributes/values for
> various tags in the configuration for the tool, like
> <tool class="org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.MarkupTool"
> img="border:0,class:thumb"/>
> So that doing just
> $markup.img.attr('src',$imglink)
> would produce something like
> <img border="0" class="thumb" src="http://foo.com/bar.jpg"/>
> Granted, i don't have that many situations where this would be useful, but
> there have been a few. Also, i wonder if it might serve as a base class for
> a JSPTaglibTool (see
> http://velocity.markmail.org/search/?q=jsp+tag#query:jsp%20tag%20from%3A%22Nathan%20Bubna%22+page:2+mid:ebotko7hanut3uhx+state:results
> for more on this)
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