On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jerome Jacobsen wrote:
>
>
> >
> > However, it might still be useful to provide another tag that can do
> > simple formatting of strings/numbers/etc if a good one doesn't already
> > exist. I've got a couple simple ones I've written for formatting numbers
> > with commas and dollar signs and stuff. I agree with Benjamin that this
> > should not be the focus of our development.
> >
>
> I think it was suggested to use tags inside the column tag body for
> "decorating". To support this the new design should make the current row
> available as a scripting variable and/or a scoped variable. Then you could
> decorate using JSP. For example, say you want to format a column as a
> currency. Assuming the scoped variable for the current iteration is set by
> the var attribute (following JSTL convention), then we could do something
> like this.
>
> <display:table var="row" ...>
> <display:column property="salary">
> <fmt:formatNumber type="currency" value="${row.salary}"/>
> </display:column>
> <display:column property="hireDate">
> <fmt:formatDate value="${row.hireDate}"/>
> </display:column>
> ...
> </display:table>
Exactly. That's precisely what my refactored tag is doing and it works
very well.
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